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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on May 9, 2016 2:19:11 GMT -8
Let's do the time warp again.
A number of weeks passed. Not sure how many, but definitely less than a month. The characters went about their biz, starting after a little while to feel halfway safe again. Wounds heal. Money changed hands. Pre-production on the movie started to be a real thing, and more...
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on May 9, 2016 2:29:07 GMT -8
Hey I'll do an example one for Chloë! This will likely be mad more simple than a PC's, but maybe it'll give ya an idea.
>>A typical day is spent doing? Hanging out with her friends as she can, helping with the film, being nice to people who are sad.
>>How did they typically get blood? Mooching off Wilhelm or other people
>>What did they do to train, and in what skills? Sword fighting with Ellen, using shadows to hide so she doesn't have to sword fight with Ellen
>>Who did they hang out with in leisure time? The film crew, the bindery boys, Wilhelm, Vitus if he's willing
>>For film crew specifically: What sort of activities did you do in the pre-production? Rehearsals, helping clean up the new location
For all: If your characters have some sort of long term goal, what did they do toward that? She's pretty focused on helping her friends be happy, and making a great movie, so she's already working on that.
>>What new things did you character do? Meeting someone new or someone they don't normally hang out with? Something unusual happened? She'd like to meet the new baby vampires and be nice to Anselm because he seemed sad.
>>What kind of problems or dangers did they face? The film crew will have to make nice with Zero, and deal with the naughty triplets. They may need to test Amaranthia's promise, if they run into Crowboys.
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Post by Kristi is prescribed skeletons on May 9, 2016 4:15:05 GMT -8
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO TEAM THEO, TREVOR EYE VIEW
Clyde remained in Glenland, assuring them they would have a much more secure hideout on returning if they called him on his cell first. He preferred to only give his digits to and be called by one member of Team Theo - it was decided Santi would be the keeper of numerals.
The rest of Team Theo smuggled themselves to Koromo in a freighter. Clyde booped the boys along with some Glennish soil inside, and left them in a gob of vampire-proof shadows right before dawn. They lay in total darkness for the rest of the journey, conserving blood.
In Koromo Santi helped them slip out of the cargo unnoticed and they found an abandoned shack to recover in. Trevor used his health magic to speed everyone's recovery time. He personally (even as Sarah) had no experience with dismembered extremities and so didn't know what to expect, but Theodore assured him the magic indeed helped. Within a week, Santi had a new lower leg!
While convalescing and confined, Theodore revealed his grand and macabre back story to Santi and Trevor, in every detail he could conjure. Trevor got the impression Theodore lacked a true sense of who he was as a human, building a concept and story of that boy later as a mental defense against Kellgren and so many other minds.
During their stay in the abandoned building, Santi went out each night and came back carrying enough blood in his body to tide them over until everyone was back to full health. By the time everyone was healed they were all quite hungry. On the first night out for everyone, Theodore marched some zombled people into an alley where Trevor got to practice putting them to sleep.
Instant success! So easy. Thereafter, everyone took blood in their own ways on their own time, no hassle. Trevor was grateful the mesmerism came so easily, allowing him a convenient way to fight off Dragomir compulsion to take blood by violence.
As soon as they were out on the town, they noticed and were noticed by other vampires. The chief port of Koromo had dozens, in a vague system where respect was accorded to power over origin. That is, progenitors held no special authority, though any tyranny over a vampire one turned was allowed unless said turned vampire successfully rebelled. Santi explained to Trevor something even Sarah hadn't known from personal experience - this was different from most other nations, where progenitors of any age were given greater prestige than turned vampires.
And within a few days, Trevor met a cast of Theodore friends and frenemies - Consuela and her children, Olga, Bostwick, Lucricia, and more. Trevor half-remembered Lucricia visiting Harlan a long time ago. She was aware of Theo's game and did not approve, but wasn't going to give anything but sass by way of discouragement.
Consuela was quiet but affectionate, giving two-fisted handshakes all around. Olga was also very happy to see Theo, Bostwick more interested in stories from a military / strategic point of view. Of everyone, Sarah's feelings tried to force him to hate Olga for being cheerful and earnest - like her feelings on Theodore but triply so.
Trevor rebelled against this steadfastly, himself appreciative of cheer. In fact, he believed going into anything emotionally stressful without a sense of humor was the downfall of many, while mirth a strength and virtue. The conflict in his head was not easily resolved, making the best solution biting his lip until it got easier.
As they socialized, fed, and moved into a nice hotel, Trevor continued experimenting with spells - trying to find a balance between power and efficiency. He also worked out different protection magics with Rat, that included better protection from threats in the material plane.
Trevor pushed his hypnotism, finding he could do more than just put people to sleep. He knew more vampire powers were just waiting to be discovered, but had a lot on his plate internally. He saw coping with creeping Dragomirishness more pressing than learning fancy tricks, and strategically wrote down important Trevor-centric memories into a journal whenever there was a chance he was slipping.
The best thing for finding his identity was focusing on his time as a human, now so remote, across the Great Ocean. He realized maybe like Theodore, he had never spent enough time as a mortal developing a sense of himself. He was almost having to weave a fictional Trevor, but it still worked.
As much as Trevor wanted to get to know Theodore, he got little opportunity after the first week cooped up in the shack. Theo was swept up in the cheer of Olga and others, which was hard to enjoy due to headmate sniping. Likewise Santi was seldom available. Having originally come from Koromo, he wanted to sink his feet into the culture again, speak with as many people as possible.
As a result, Trevor spent most of his time with Rat, Miss Bunny, and Washy Wendy (after she cooled down) until early their second week on the island, when he, Santi, and Theodore had a night out to explore local boutiques.
Bonding was had.
In the last hour before dawn he could usually get Santi more down to business and more rarely Theodore. They pieced together useful information from each other, from human agents afar, and from Trevor's own spirit acquired info, to help plan future attacks. For all of the effort, it still felt like there were too many unknowns - and worse, that Theodore was so impulsive he would likely go off-plan in the moment no matter what they came up with. He assured them it wasn't a problem, but Trevor was starting to recognize just the type of permanent child this person had become.
Trevor, with his fondness for the rare bird, could live with Theo and enduringly find the man-childishness endearing, but was considering what sort of safeties might be appropriately implemented to prevent potential tragedy. It was hard to think of anything that didn't involve a babysitter - convincing him to always have someone else along on jobs.
In the rest of his time there, Trevor's curiosity led him to cross paths with dangerous unfamiliar vampires more than once. Sarah's tongue would surely have gotten him beatdowns, but he used the experiences as unplanned practice in quelling the mean-spirited ghost.
At length, Team Theo returned to Glenland, this time several strong. With Minchin's hideouts in the shadows between the spirit and the material, Rat's protections were mostly redundant cautions. Soon, the war was back on.
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Post by Dr. Jar on May 9, 2016 18:43:46 GMT -8
RU STYLES, RETURN OF LORD DEMOS
Ru spent the next weeks Ru'ing it up: rehearsing for the movie / focuses on his acting for a portion of each day / working on his acting skills & best Lord Demos impression / getting into character / trying on costumes while attempting a persona. Other considerations for the movie: gathering props throughout the city and practicing shapeshifting for special effects purposes. Ru is nothing if not dedicated to his craft.
Ru enjoyed the company of friends old and new. The cast and crew of the movie: Wilhelm, August, Chloë, Cameron, Tristan, and Babette especially. He tried to be better friends with Cameron and Tristan, finding them to be pretty easy-going dudes - Cam a little more stressed and thinky than Tris.
At some point during this time, some actual humans beyond the Naughty Boys were added to the cast and crew - three people who were not cut in on the supernatural secret of this bunch. Hijinks ensued, but they were nice enough people.
As the movie set was near the Bindery, he also occasionally spent time with Anselm and his freshly turned children - Zody and Dana. They had both been people with severe health issues, for whom vampirism was a physical relief - even if it added some other stresses. And at least a few times, and artist boy named Hunter showed up with Jess on his coattails. They were zazzy and amusing.
He spent some time exploring his environs - the New Abbey where he crashed with Babette and shared the building with Ellen, Ausmiller, and Clovis - and the Cathedral / movie set, with its naughty triplets and resident ghoul. Both locations had a rustic or urban decay environment with attendant wild and feral animals, and he spent some time talking with them as well. He'd often practice his fixating gaze ability on the Naughty Triplets to get them to lay off of some foolery - not through the power of suggestion so much as the power of weirding them out.
Unlife was a swirl of faces and excitements, and getting to know the high-speed animals just made the world that much more complex. Ru was always on the lookout for other supernatural beings and Crowboys, because he was a bit unsure of that Amaranthia, but nothing of that sort caused him trouble on these nights.
During this time he tried to stay in touch with Demetri, and found that the old vampire was actually eager to get together. When Ru mentioned wanting to train, Demetri insisted he come for a day and a night consecutively, bringing Cameron and Tristan. Once there, they suffered a surprisingly intense workout session of the damned, and emerged from the crucible stronger - and probably less enthusiastic about Demetri's methods.
After that, while Demetri was usually too busy to invest time in the youths, he specifically invited Ru to some tasks alone. Sometimes it was just helping with care in on of his safehouses were dozens of animals coexisted - from snakes and birds to a baby black bear. It was fun talking to different species and getting to know something of their inner lives.
Other times, he spent just had him function like an intern, referring to him in front of third parties as his "youth attaché." It was a cryptic business, this war. One day it was meeting with Kohonese businessmen, another it was watching through binoculars as someone lowered a piano onto a truck.
During this time, he started out mooching blood from very reluctant Wilhelm, Ellen, and Demetri. But after the training day, he learned the ability to mesmerize people to sleep, and helped other youths with their blood needs using the combination of his power and their social skills. He practiced his shadow powers during these times, being pretty self-conscious a lot of the time. He usually went on these forays with Babette, but sometimes felt he had to keep a discreet distance while she vamped on people in a more seductive way.
Whatever the case, he could finally fend for himself as a vampire. Sally forth, little Lord Demos. Sally forth.
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Post by ∆§Indea§∆ on May 9, 2016 19:00:59 GMT -8
AUGUSTARCTOS GOES BUCKWILD!
August helped Anselm with his surprisingly short healing time while planning for the film as much as possible. Having Cameron immediately on hand was great because he automatically thought of technical approaches to get the shots August conceived, and for any other desires he expressed - such as making the Bindery more homey. They had entertainment and editing equipment about the same time they got better furnishings. Through this, Tristan had some weird phone tag thing going on that amused Anselm.
Once the calls came in from the Anselm's volunteers, August helped with getting those youths turned with minimal discomfort, and helping them feel positive about the change. It really seemed to work after the first few days of being weirded out by non-breathing. Zody and Dana were gonna be alright. Anselm himself wasn't as good with his own kids, and they ended up just living in their old mortal residences.
After that stuff was out of the way, August spent his nights working on the film with whoever is available - different people every night - working on the new set, etc. The film crew first had to make nice with Zero, and deal with the naughty triplets. It was an interesting time.
He was hanging out with roomies, film crew, anyone who wants to - again, different people every night, even a few less familiar Reckenbergers. In times shared with Wilhelm, they worked on the script, character concepts, and with the cast.
Through it all he did his best to make sure his friends stayed safe. He helped train them in shooting, way cooler than swords. Those willing all achieved basic competence with firearms. Education is rad.
For food needs during this time, he would usually go out to clubs with Tristan and Cameron, sometimes with Babette and Ru as well, more rarely with Chloë, Clovis, and Wilhelm. His approach was to find friendly people - preferably girls - and either hypnotise them or take a little during make outs. Cookies for all. Very early on, he mastered putting people to sleep with hypnotism, which was a huge weight off his shoulders.
With other powers, his training was of less practical need than the hypnotism, so he had to set aside a bit of time to work on them. Usually it would be a group affair, with mostly Marcheses, Dragomirs, and Anselm babies going to some seldom-observed location to work on shadows, climbing, gliding, whatever.
Wilhelm would often be the oldest vampire present. August tried specifically to work on expanding his shadows to encompass others, and doing a bit of sparring - just in case. At some point, the Dragomir boys had a high speed training day with Demetri. As much as they hated it, they learned some good moves they tried to teach to August.
He couldn't get much better shadow reach for proper concealment than a meter or two, but he found he was able to make longer awesome shapes with shadows! Lord Demos eat your heart out. He could have a demon shadow, a giant fluffy bunny shadow, bend everyone's shadows around the room like zebra stripes, whatever.
In his leisure time, August hung out with just, like, everyone even tangential to the movie, but mostly his Bindery Boys - Anselm, Cam, and Tristan - his Movie Groovies - Wilhelm / Chloë and Babette / Ru, the set residents - Zero and the Naughty Boys, and the Finsterwalds - unless they were going to a sex club.
A few very noteworthy new faces - Zody and Dana were big, as were some humans August added to the film crew. Appearing less often but making a manic splash - Hunter and his hanger-on Masher Jess.
He also used Jess's inside dope on the Masher to find out - Karl got to keep his job, the offices stank for a good while, but they didn't print a retraction or apology. The hell, guys? He hoped his night of pranks didn't have too dire of consequences. In addition he kept an eye on Lloyd French. His SocialLink had posts about mysterious cases of diarrhea. Don't eat soap bro.
His interactions with Anselm got a little weird for a while - the guy keeping weird appointments and hanging out with Darren in a shady way. He also seemed to be avoiding Demetri, which prompted visits from the old vampire, which made August slide out the back door - not spilling anymore beans. Once the Mystery of Anselm Foolery was resolved, the guy tried to help August make a love connection. August was doing alright in his clubbing, but how much harm could come from letting Anselm help? How much?
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Post by DKender on May 9, 2016 20:22:30 GMT -8
UNITED COLORS OF BABETTON
Babette spent her time working on the movie, chillin' with peeps, practicing her squiggle spider illusion skills, getting badgered into martial training with Ellen and Ausmiller, writing fiction and nonfiction and unusual combinations of both in her diaries, visiting clubs, taking long walks in gloomy places, staring at the moon and sighing. It was reminiscent of the summer after high school and before college, but more cold and dead.
Ellen stopped feeding her blood, so she started nomming on unsuspecting sexy people in or out of clubs. Ru suddenly became a big help with that after a hardcore training session in which - among other things - he gained the ability to hypnotize people to sleep.
Babette tried to convince Ellen fencing should be done with a foil, but the old lady insisted she use a full weight longsword - made even more heavy and unwieldy by remaining in the scabbard during practice. She hoped the style she was learning could be adapted to look less clumsy, anticipating that the the skill might come in handy during her next historical movie. She does her own stunts.
She tried to work on illusions by staring at mirrors and zoning out, but the biggest boost to her skills came from delving into some big time misadventure with Anselm...
The real order of the day night was socializing, chiefly with the movie crew, including Anselm (he's an honorary member, as August's roomie). That meant a growing myriad of people - a few new humans, a few new vamps, and do on. During her clubbing she also tried to befriend those friendly Finsterwalds, and sometimes visited Thierry's club to say hello (and pickup vampire-loving mortals).
Back at the abbey, the main company was Ellen, Ausmiller, Ru, Clovis, and more rarely Chloe, Helen, or (that one time) Anselm. Of the new people at the abbey she got on well enough with Ausmiller, but much better with romantic Clovis. No one was too cool for Babette school.
Ru was so serious about his craft that it lifted Babette out of her nightdreaming tendencies time and again, for rehearsal and professional LARPing (aka method acting).
Babette's goal to be a movie siren was furthered by her work on August/Wilhelm productions. She hoped that paparazzi don't secretly follow her! In case they did someday, she occasionally breathed when alone - but never blinked, since that might ruin a photo. For research purposes, she also visited a couple rich person places, such as gallery openings where the art costs a billion moneys or bars where the drinks also cost a billion moneys.
On the rare occasions the rich persons didn't let her in, she stared through the glass like a child staring at ... pudding in a shoe, or whatever they eat during Godmas in Antearctos. Babette probably realized that the rich person life is not for her, mostly because it's a huge waste of money and there are too many snobs. If she were to become a movie star someday, she would give her money to charities for sad orphans.
Babette became an amateur journalist by writing anonymous, strongly worded rebuttals to Karl Random's review and sending them all to KARL OF THE MASHER. Each rebuttal ended with the warning: ghosts are real. She also practiced crawling on walls, since Anselm's cool shadow ceiling move inspired her to be a better vampire.
Sometimes that shadow practice was in the context of casual training sessions with Wilhelm and friends, other times it was being naughty girls and hiding from the fencing instructor with Chloe. Babette began to take her daydreamy side career as a singer more seriously too, and often sang gloomy ballads during karaoke nights at various city establishments.
No serious dangers showed themselves in that time, save for the evils within the old holy grounds. One time as she was hooking a starry silk stocking to a garter, a keening wind howled past her from a narrow opening in the bookshelves. But by the time she reached to investigate, the books had mysteriously fallen together, inert and boring, unable to influence the universe in their sorrow...
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