TRAINING CREW - THE SHADOW ROOM
May 15, 2014 22:25:45 GMT -8
Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on May 15, 2014 22:25:45 GMT -8
EARLIER,
Out on the dance floor, it was easy to disappear. Everyone was shuffling feet with their heads down, just
a few exceptions. One girl twirled a fan fringed with peacock feathers, one guy also aimed for hypnotic
moves. Tristan was doing a less humble shuffle dance. Jack boogied up and Eli danced a little better than
if he was a het dude.
...One of the slouchy youths on the floor looked emaciated and ill, but more importantly,
was so much less warm than the humans around him that his fire aura was thin. WTF?
the whereabouts and actions of their blue-haired comrade, but Jason seemed OK chatting
up a hetbro at the bar.
Then, some time later, a "heroin kid" in a pink dress rolled up to do some moves by Jack.
Jack boogied near her in a chaste way. Poor thing... Definitely not getting
any blood from that stone, but tonight was about fun anyway, wasn't it?
But then, she was giving him the strangest look. Did he know her from
somewhere? The worst thing was a faint smell of death in the club was
giving him bad déjà vu.
He was getting a weird feeling indeed. Where did he know her from? His stoner days?
He looked at her questioningly. She understood the question and leaned close enough.
Meanwhile, at the Walfleur Table,
In New Jack City,
Maybe he'd never know what this was if he didn't follow through on this. She led him to a
a section of bar with a few more of the people they'd pegged as heroin addicts earlier.
Jack didn't quite catch that. Figures he would've known the druggiest looking people in the club.
What were they on about? Vitus, Courtney, and Darren approached.
Out on the dance floor, it was easy to disappear. Everyone was shuffling feet with their heads down, just
a few exceptions. One girl twirled a fan fringed with peacock feathers, one guy also aimed for hypnotic
moves. Tristan was doing a less humble shuffle dance. Jack boogied up and Eli danced a little better than
if he was a het dude.
The fire swelled around them as they moved through that human space...
Eli-
"Wonder why Jason Tristan-
doesn't get in on this?" "Some guys just doesn't
Jack- likes to dance. It's OK."
"It's their loss. Now shuddup and get down."
...One of the slouchy youths on the floor looked emaciated and ill, but more importantly,
was so much less warm than the humans around him that his fire aura was thin. WTF?
With that, they ignored the issue, and resumed their gaiety. Of more interest to them was
Eli-
"Damn, are all the kids on the heroin these days?
Jack- Well, this is our time to feel alive... ish."
"Huh. That's prob'ly it."
Tristan-
"Huh?"
the whereabouts and actions of their blue-haired comrade, but Jason seemed OK chatting
up a hetbro at the bar.
Then, some time later, a "heroin kid" in a pink dress rolled up to do some moves by Jack.
Who Dis-
"..."
Jack-
"..."
Jack boogied near her in a chaste way. Poor thing... Definitely not getting
any blood from that stone, but tonight was about fun anyway, wasn't it?
But then, she was giving him the strangest look. Did he know her from
somewhere? The worst thing was a faint smell of death in the club was
giving him bad déjà vu.
Who Dis-
"..."
Jack-
"..."
He was getting a weird feeling indeed. Where did he know her from? His stoner days?
He looked at her questioningly. She understood the question and leaned close enough.
Who Dis-
"You're all grown up, Cat Style.
No time for pritty ghouls now?"
Jack-
"Cat st-- did I-- sorry, did we... Did we meet before?
I've got the weirdest feeling I'm... forgetting."
Who Dis-
"Corrr, and I hope't we could rekindle love's lost flame.
Tabitha Canny? You wore glasses then, enjoyed a tendril."
Jack-
"Ohh, oh I'm sorry. I must've been too baked or something. I still enjoy
a good L though, in moderation. Hope I didn't act like a fool back then."
Tabitha-
"You ran errands for a Lord Demos, izzat foolhardly?"
Meanwhile, at the Walfleur Table,
Vitus-
"And why aren't you two dancing?"
Darren-
Courtney- "I don't dance."
"I've seen videos."
Darren-
"OK, I don't dance unless I'm performing."
Courtney-
"So many weirdly skinny people here, now that Sombreta guy
is dancing with one... Is it weird for me to ask if they're human?"
Vitus-
"Er, don't sweat it guys, I know them. Ghouls."
Courtney-
"Ghouls? What, pray tell, is a ghoul?" Darren-
"One of those."
Vitus-
"Yeah, ghouls. You should go talk to them. Er, to set
your mind at ease, they only eat the dead, they don't
make people dead. Good guys."
These Two-
"..."
In New Jack City,
He had a hella eerie feeling, but as spooky as this lady looked, she didn't seem monstrous.
Jack-
"Lord Demos?"
Jack-
"Oh, haha, you mean that Ionavic guy? Yeah,
that was pretty foolhardy. You know him?"
Tabitha-
"Cannot 'ear you over th' musics. Come with?"
Jack-
"Sure."
Maybe he'd never know what this was if he didn't follow through on this. She led him to a
a section of bar with a few more of the people they'd pegged as heroin addicts earlier.
Tabitha-
"Jack Balliard, greet 'Sanna and The Striped One.
You lot, reverse."
'Sanna-
Striped- "It pleases me to greet thee."
"Before you get any idears,
know that ours is a bitter draught."
Jack didn't quite catch that. Figures he would've known the druggiest looking people in the club.
Jack-
"Hey, nice to meet you. I met Tabitha before the weed erased
my mind I guess, haha. Sorry if I met you guys before and forgot."
Striped- 'Sanna-
"Hm..." "Oh you're quite new to I. 'S'fine."
Tabitha-
"Don't know as I should say where we met, precise--"
Tabitha-
"'Ang-gon Stripes, are you implying 'ee's a drinker?"
Striped- 'Sanna-
"Quite." "But of course. I sawr Veery o'er thither."
Jack-
"Oh, well, I'm still more of a stoner than a boozer..."
What were they on about? Vitus, Courtney, and Darren approached.
Vitus-
"Sanna, Tabby, Stripes, I see you've met Jack. There's more
where that came from, so I hope you're enjoying their company.
Here's Courtney and Darren."
These Two-
"..."
'Sanna-
"Wellats not verry flatterin'."
Jack-
"Wow Veets, you know these guys
too? I knew Tabitha when I was a kid."
Vitus-
"Tabby? How?!"
Tabby-
"'Isn't it charming? We were teenaged lovers."
These Two-
"..."
'Sanna-
"Oh, Come ARRRRnnn! Some
find us quite enchanting, they do!"
Jack-
"Yeah, dang you two, can't a guy be a little flexible?
I'm not a total 6, maybe like a... 5.98."
Jack-
"Anyway, I don't exactly remember though, it's strange.
I guess we met when I was working for Demetri."
Vitus-
"Of course! Demetri dealt with Jack, and
must've had some deals with ghouls as well."
Tabby-
"Must everything be so unromantical? It pains."
Courtney-
"...Very sorry, of course, I'm Courtney Superb - a web designer or some
such bollocks. This is Darren Langley...burg...ton. Of the Westlangley-
burgton Langleyburgtons. He--"
Stripes-
"--Is a famous rocking man of the human persuay.
Glamour and fleshiness such as we'd never understand, right?"
Vitus-
"Well, that was a sincere apology,
I'm sure. Are we friends again?"
'Sanna-
"Not as such, Veery. No."
Jack-
"Man... what the hizzy. I'm just really confused and I feel like
Vitus is being rude so like, sorry for that. But I also feel like
I must have gotten some kind of brain da--"
Jack-
"Wait. Uh... I might-- Vitus, please...what's going on?"
Vitus-
"These are ghouls. We drink blood, they... do something else.
When you used to run errands for Demetri, it brought you in
contact with them, as he had dealings there. Could be he
erased your memory of the occasion."
'Sanna-
"We're not here to be object lessons for
babby moss-quee-tons, Veer! Fuck right off!"
Tabby-
"You rend my heart, dear 'Sanna! Stay thy talonry!"
Courtney-
"I really, really do mean I'm sorry. We're so new, and didn't know
there were such people as ghouls, and I'd never want to make some-
one feel bad about their self, really."
Jack-
"WHAT?! Whoa! Whoa, wait. Shit, he probably did that all the time!
And like-- damn, so no one here is human? Way to out us by the way, V--
well, I guess it might be obvious? But like, I wonder why-- did something
exciting happen back then? Was I really dating Tabitha and he got jealous?
Wow this is soo trippy..."
Jack-
"Aw man, how many cool things did I miss out on 'cause I got brain
melted? Bad enough to forget 'em 'cause you're stoned, another thing
to get the whammy when you don't even get to get smoked out. Maybe
I coulda been friends with y'all instead of getting the Demos curse. Sucks..."
'Sanna-
Stripes- "Oy. Din't. Care.. Off. Ye. Fuck."
"Mmmm, I'd be amenable to
amends, if suitably amending." "Not. Eye."
Vitus-
"Just wanted a friendly hello
to my friends. We'll go though,
if we have to..."
Tabby-
"Nooo, we must cross this cultural divide like montane
goats. 'Sanna, blood, I will owe you my life's breath."
'Sanna-
Stripes- "...Faaaaain. I will collect."
"Start with a bribe of alcove?
Anyway, t'yer question on out-ting, we've senses to tell.
Y'scent of juice, got a dry thin oil... only sweat as walls do."
Jack-
"...Maybe I should get high first. So what do y'all get up to? You meet
Vitus the way he seems to know the entire supernatural world?"
'Sanna-
Stripes- "'Ee meant wee're to get high."
"True. Takers?"
Vitus-
"I'm you're man."
Tabby-
"Oh goody. And thus resolved, one menthe julep."
'Sanna-
Stripes- "*soigh* Whiskey on ice."
"Vodka straight. We know
Veer becozzzy likes to charm on those are as different to all."
Courtney- Darren-
"Weird hobby." "Huh."
Jack-
"Aw, you get to get soused the legit way? Jelly."
Tabby- 'Sanna-
"A privilege of remaining alive." "Izzit our responsibility ta
educate the deady masses on our
family particulars? Need we?"
Darren-
"I'm jealous too... Anyhow, Vitus gave us the high speed tour.
Jack, they're ghouls. They eat dead people, but don't kill for it."
Vitus-
"And unlike us, they're still alive. It's an uncommon inherited condition,
they have lots of human relatives too. That about cover questions?"
Tabby-
"Not completely. Am I to understand as our 'ole relationship
was erazed from thy youthful brains, by our mutual Lord De-moss?"
Jack-
"I guess so. Ugh, that's so creepy. Well, at least that
can't happen again, right? Benefit of being a dead boy."
Vitus-
"True, aside from calling, our hypnotic powers don't work on each other -
for compulsions or erasing memories. But the relationship couldn't have
been very long. I doubt Demetri could erase more than a night's events
without great effort."
Tabby-
"Teenage love tarries 'Sanna-
briefly upon the vine." "Speak not of this vampire's vine.
My ardor has withered as that frail fruit."
Stripes-
"Is there a troof to be found in all dis?"
Courtney-
"Don't be like that. I'm sure it was a passionate night."
Jack-
"Hell, maybe it was. Well, if I hung out with you,
you had to know how to party, yeah?"
Tabby-
"Ay could tro' down, Stripes-
break a b'y en two." "I believe the pardying prowess more 'an
the rest o' this sardid tale. How didst thou, thus?"
Tabby-
"Don't know as I should tell. 'Sanna-
To self incrimine, no mine." "Out withal, thou rogue!"
Tabby- "Oh look, mwarr pritty lads."
Eli- Tristan-
"That's nice to say." "We saw avryone was alls talking about
over here and we were saying, who's this?"
Jack-
"Let's see... Tabby, Stripes and Hannah, was it?
These guys are some kinda cool supernatural beings."
Tabby- Stripes- 'Sanna-
"Hellooo genitalmen." "Eeesh." "Soo-sanna. Pair'ap as you'll
be more politic than this lot."
Courtney- Darren-
"No time for wrong "I don't know what we did wrong, honestly.
foot repair, as yet." You people look really unhealthy and it's
unsettling. We got unsettled."
Jack-
"Well dang, dude. You're not
exactly spry yourself."
Eli-
"Well, uh, anyway... Vitus was just taking me on a sightseeing
trip through Glenland's magical underbelly recently. Hard to
top a magical talking cat, but you got any cool powers?"
Jack-
"What? Magical cat? You never showed
me that. I love cats. I love magic. Hello."
Vitus-
"But he was, well, a bit more pitiful, and
Melancholy only appears on certain ni--"
Tabby-
"I've put up wivvalot, but yer 'Sanna-
obsession wivvour looks is ged--" "CORRR, if you get me an
aurdients wivva cat god, all's
Stripes- fargiven farever, Veer!"
"Ehh, we do look a fright."
Courtney-
"Darren we're trying to make friends here, god."
Tristan-
"Ah, you all looks like some cool peoples,
Eli- don't be sad. Like moddles Janek Bibelos,
"Oh wow, you're right! Especially Johnny Terrein, and Barbara Bossier."
Barbara, I heard the other models on
Le Plus Grand Mannequin injected their faces
with coconut oil to emulate her cheekbones!"
Jack-
"Hope it was organic... But for real V, how pitiful does
a fella have to be to get the magical adventure hookup?"
Vitus-
"C'mooon, people. If everyone got to see the magical cat, there'd be world
peace and eternal bliss for the people. You know it won't work like that. I
bring you people and you bring your people, and I'll never see her again."
Courtney-
"But if a dozen people got to see a magical cat once, as opposed
to you seeing it a few times, then more people get to be happy.
Weak excuse, sir."
Darren-
"Yeah, quit holdin' out, dick."
Tabby-
"I LOVE Barbie Bossy! 'Sanna-
It's so sweeet." Stripes- "Quit holdin' out, dick!"
"Where are our drinks?"
Tristan-
Eli- "Mr. Vitus is holding an out dick?"
"Okay, like, he's not, but
you had me going for a microsecond..."
{originally}
In Eliaston,
In Jasonville,
In Eliaston,
Darren-
"I'm not that famous."
Courtney-
"I know about a hundred musicians that would kill for your success, but OK..."
Courtney-
"I really am sorry. We're hardly used to drinking blood and being dead, Vitus didn't do a very good job of telling us about your, er, defining traits."
Vitus-
"It's true."
Sanna-
"A tentative 'I don't hate you' then."
Courtney-
"Accepted and gladly."
Stripes-
"This is going entirely too well, it is."
Tabby-
"Lead us t' our doom, Eelias. We shall pickle our innards, for healf!"
In Jasonville,
TGJTLA-
"So much for this intimidating facial hair I've been cultivating. I'm Webster."