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Entertainment Room
Located behind the exercise room/spa and to the side of the meeting room, the entertainment room is where Hunters go to have a little fun while inside Haven. There is a pool table, a large table with several chairs around it, a card table, and a ping-pong table at one end of the room. There's a thirty inch widescreen plasma tv with digital cable and surround sound, a PS2, a Gamecube, an X-box, a VCR, a DVD player, a large couch, two loveseats, several beanbag chairs, and three recliners at the other end of the room. In the corner nearest the door there is a mini-fridge filled with drinks and a CD music system with stereos next to it, in the corner across from it is a potted bonsai tree, in the far corner is a miniature Zen rock garden, and in the last corner is a small fountain. Along the wall on one side of the room is a dart board, several shelves with videotapes and boardgames on them, and cabinets filled with DVDs, CDs, videogames, cards, poker chips, and other games in them.

Computer Room
This is the room where all of the Hunters' computers are located. All along the sides of the room are long tables with chairs and several dozen quality PC computers with high-speed broadband internet connections. They're all also connected to several scanners and printers set up on a round table towards the center of the room. The computers are used for research, writing, going on the internet, e-mail, and gaming. The computers are available to all the Hunters to use however they see fit.

Library
Next to the computer room is the library. This is where Hunters can either do research about supernatural creatures or read for their own enjoyment. One wall is filled with shelves of fiction books including books like Dracula and other somewhat useful stories, one wall is filled with shelves of non-fiction books, and another wall is filled with shelves of resource and research books including ancient tomes on supernatural creatures and spell books. Next to the doorway are a few small shelves and racks for graphic novels, magazines, newspapers, and comic books. In the middle of the room is a round table with several chairs around it, a few lounge chairs with ottomans, and a couple of potted plants. Anyone who wishes to may borrow books or other materials from the library and return them at their convienence.




DVD, CD, Videotape, Videogame, Computer Game, and Book Collection Lists
These lists are of the various DVD and video movies and shows, music CDs, videogames, computer games, and books in the entertainment room and library. If you want to add something to the collection, such as a favorite movie, videogame, computer game, book, or music CD, let me know and I'll add it.



DVD and VHS video collection
Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers
The Last Samurai
Patton
John Carpenter's Vampires
An American Werewolf in London
Dracula
Nosferatu
The Wolfman
The Sound of Music
Interveiw With the Vampire
Queen of the Damned



CD music collection
Number of the Beast
Cast In Stone Ltd. Edition
Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years
Kill 'Em All
Master of Reality
And Justice For All
Spreading the Disease
Paranoid
Rage for Order
The World Needs A Hero
New Found Power
Rising Force
Urban Discipline
Best of Iron Maiden
Dracula 2000 Soundtrack
Evanescence- Fallen
LOVEappears - Ayumi Hamasaki
Evolution Remixes - Ayumi Hamasaki VS Various




Videogames
Knights of the Old Republic (X-box)
Fable (X-box)
Splinter Cell (X-box)
Halo (X-box)
Halo 2 (X-box)
Final Fantasy VII (Playstation)
Final Fantasy VIII (Playstation)
Final Fantasy IX (Playstation)
Final Fantasy X (PS2)
Final Fantasy X-2 (PS2)
Metal Gear Solid (Playstation)
Metal Gear Solid 2 (PS2)
Metal Gear Solid 3 (PS2)
Devil May Cry (PS2)
Metroid Prime (Gamecube)
Super Smash Brothers (Gamecube)
Dance Dance Remix with Dance Mats (PS2)




Computer games
World of Warcraft
Starcraft
Warcraft III
Command & Conquer Generals
Command & Conquer Red Alert 2
Aliens vs Predator 2
Unreal Tournament
Quake III



Fiction Books
Dragonflight- Anne McCaffrey
Dragon's Dawn- Anne McCaffrey
The Harper Hall Trilogy- Anne McCaffrey
Icewind Dale Trilogy- R.A. Salvatore
The Hobbit- J.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings Tilogy- J.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia- C.S. Lewis
Dracula- Bram Stoker
Interview with the Vampire- Anne Rice
X-Wing Rogue Squadron- Michael A. Stackpole


Non-fiction and Resource Books
Webster's Dictionary
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters
Karate for Begginners
Introduction to Kickboxing
Guide to Tae-Kwon-Do
Beginner's Guide to Judo
The Art of Swordsmanship
Expert Guide to Archery
Marksmanship for Beginners
Expert Marksmanship
A Book of Five Rings
Guide to Gun Maintainence
The Art of Throwing Knives
The Art of War
History of Guerilla Warfare
Hunting for Professionals



Magazines, Newspapers, Comics, and Manga
New York Times
The New Yorker
Time
National Geographic
Reader's Digest
TV Guide
Outdoor Life
American Medical Journal
Archie comics
Marvel comics
DC comics
Ranma 1/2
Inuyasha
Fruits Basket
Juvenile Orion
Musashi #9
Land of the Blindfolded



Remember, if you can think of anything that you'd want added to any of these lists, PM me, tell me what it is you want added, and I'll put it up on the appropriate list.


Thanks go to Saito Akame for suggesting these additions to the entertainment lists.

Game - PS2 - Dance Dance Remix (with Dance Mats)

CD - LOVEappears - Ayumi Hamasaki

CD - Evolution Remixes - Ayumi Hamasaki VS Various

Akame walks into the entertainmant room, sipping something pink from a transparrent plastic cup though a straw. Her choice of clothes for today is a green tank top with a pair of desert tan combat fatigues. She walks right over tot eh CD player and puts in her CD. Genki J-Pop starts soon afterwards, and she drags a beanbag over, which she sits on, happy listening to the music, bobbing her head from side to side as she listens.

Another song comes on, and Akame hastily puts her drink down, and stands up to start dancing. This one she sengs along to as she dances.

hanarerarezu ni ita yo zutto
minarete'ru keshiki ga atta kara

itsu ka mata kono basho e kite mo
onaji sora o onaji you ni miete
utsukushii to ieru no ka to
boku wa kangaesugita no ka mo shirenai
sukoshi no nemuri ni tsuite mata asu isogou

kowagatte fumidasazu ni iru ippo ga
kasanatte itsu kara ka nagaku nagai
michi ni natte teokure ni nattari shite
sono uchi ni nan to naku ima no basho mo
warukunai ka mo nante omoi dashite
nan to ka jibun ni riyuu tsuketari shita

honto wa ne tatta no ichido mo rikai shinai mama de
subete ga wakatta furi o shite ita n da ne

hanarerarezu ni ita yo zutto
minarete'ru keshiki ga atta kara

nan da ka subete ga chippoke de
chiisa na katamari ni mieta no wa
aoida sora ga amari ni hatenaku
hirosugita kara datta no ka mo shirenai
kimi no tonari ni ita kara ka mo shirenai

atama de wa wakatte'ru tsumori demo ne
surechigau doko ka no dare ka no koto
furikaette nagamete wa urayandari

nai mono nedari o itsu made tsudzukete iku n darou
sou omoeta no wa kimi ni deaeta kara desho

subete wa kitto kono te ni aru
koko ni yume wa oite ikenai
subete wa kitto kono te ni aru
kimerareta mirai mo iranai

subete wa kitto kono te ni aru
ugokanakya ugokasenai kedo
subete wa kitto kono te ni aru
hajimenakya hajimaranai kara

Once the song is done she giggles and sits down, then sighs. She turns off the music, outs the CD back in it's case and lies back on the bean bag, "ahhh... So Bored!"

Akame comes back in, looking a little harried. She grins when she sees that the playstation is now unused, and wanders over. She unplugs the player 1 pad, and plugs in a dance mat. She puts DDR into the console, chooses a dificulty when prompted, and starts playing, stamping on the directions on the dance mat in time with the music.

Liora grinned at both his strange suffix and Krii'Ouse's abrupt change for the better in the mood-department. She set her carrying case off to the side, leaning it carefully against the wall in plain sight. If she were to neglect her items again, Liora would be very angry with herself. Ricardo had been nice enough to look after her things the first time. The second time, someone might decide to relieve her of her personal effects for good. Liora discarded her extinguished cig into a trash can before plopping down on the couch opposite Krii'Ouse.

"It is a great movie." she agreed, nodding her approval.

Her mind shifted back to the discovery she'd made earlier. Though it was a perfectly logical concept, Liora had not anticipated for there to be rooms within the actual complex of the Haven. The idea of having a room here was worth entertaining. Her current apartment was designed for two people, and Liora had long since closed off a few of the rooms out of spite and grief. Perhaps it was time to move out, to let go of the past, but Liora wasn't sure how to go about acquiring a room at the Haven. For all she knew, it could be a leaders only affair.

She was so distracted by this 'discovery' of hers that she failed to notice how secretive Krii'Ouse had been about his room. Such blatant ignorance was probably for the better, given Krii'Ouse's rough day.

Liora shook her head and projected her indifference into the air with a hand. Before she spoke, Liora crossed her legs and shifted into a more comfortable position on the couch.

"If it's a movie I've seen before, I do not mind talking at all." she replied.

Her golden eyes were rivetted on the screen, but her body language suggested that she was perfectly willing to talk. She'd watched Underworld countless times, after all. A few missed minutes would not confuse her, as they were things which she'd seen before.

"However, if it's something I am completely unfamiliar with, I do have a penchant for flinging boots, " continued Liora. Her gaze shifted from the screen to Krii'Ouse's face for a moment. "I've seen Underworld many times before. I think you may have already concluded that from my mind."

Her last comment was a masked warning to herself. She could not forget that Krii'Ouse was a telepath even though he was her comrade. Liora knew that he was respectable enough not to pry into her mind, but if her secret thoughts drifted to the surface like an unchecked bloated corpse, what then? Liora herself could not deny things which were presented to her, and she doubted Krii'Ouse could either. Such was the nature of man and his...'relations'. For now, she'd have to keep some things secret. She'd have to stay on her toes. ((Edit: I'm out for the night, and I'm not entirely sure that I'll be around tommorow night. If you don't feel like waiting, just say Liora fell asleep or something. sweatdrop I'll be able to get at least one more post in for the morning.))

Liora nodded solemnly as she heard his talks on his powers; it was as she expected: Krii'Ouse respected her privacy. In turn, it was her responsibily to keep her private thoughts, well, ah...private. However, she already nearly messed up this goal. He'd heard her thoughts about her piqued interest in the rooms at the Haven, but he hadn't seemed to hear her other thoughts. That was promising.

However, much to her surprise, Liora felt a subtle shiver traverse her spine initially at the mention of a room. Moving into the Haven would be the next big step for her; it would be the equivalent of twisting the prison door key on the enclosure that had become her life. If she were to purchase a room, she would be tossing aside her past, her previous relations, and her old means of life. She'd come to feel a certain...affection for her room, yet Liora knew this to be illogical: it was more of a prison than any other place could be. It was a welcome thought, getting a new room. No longer would she have to smell blood of months past upon entering her room; no longer would she be able to cast a weary glance at the closed doors and mourn over what had occurred on the other side of them. Moving out would be a healthy choice, even if she liked to believe that her health really didn't matter.

"I'll take anything but that 'one extra' room you spoke of," replied Liora. She wasn't sure whom Krii'Ouse was referring to when it came to that room, but Liora assumed that it was related to the grief he'd been stricken over recently. Abruptly, her mind brought a comment she'd overheard from earlier to her mind. His girl had left him. Ah, everything fell into place. "Assuming that it's quite alright. I'm fairly quiet, so I shan't disturb anyone."

So, she'd prepped herself from taking the 'big' leap away from her previous life. Liora deliberately crossed her arms and tucked her hands underneath her upper arms. Her hands were trembling slightly from a mixture of both anticipation and trepidation. Why must the most obvious and mundane of choices be so intimidating? Every part of her wished to escape her former den with the exception of the portion which still hadn't grasped that she was Lycan and still clung feverishly to her life as it had been.