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 Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:44 pm
Regina raised a hand. "I'm game! And an Ameretto sour please, lemonade with a buzz." she said with a smirk. She wondered what Porter's choice of drink was. She couldn't remember from when they went to the beach house.
Gen helped Tetsuo to get some clothes appropriate for him. Basically they just stole some of Kirk's pants and made the holes bigger. He'd find out sooner or later, but it seemed that now the institute would have to create more pants for people with tails.
She kinda liked the tail. She wouldn't admit it right off the bat of course... but she thought it was really neat. Looking around the bar, she wondered just what she would be able to handle.
ooc: going out tonight, but i'll pick up wherever we are whenever i get back.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:59 pm
Pietro looked down, solemnly. For a moment, he could face neither Wanda, nor Ana. He tried desperately to think of some excuse for what he'd done to his sister, but there really wasn't one. It was true that at the moment Magneto broke them apart, he was quite powerless to stop it. But in the years since, he'd grown in power. He could have rescued her... it wasn't as if he had forgotten where she was. The memory of that night was etched into his memory forever, no matter how hard he tried to forget.
"Wanda... I'm..." he began. But what was he going to say? Sorry? Angry? Worthy of forgiveness? But none of that sounded right...
"I'm afraid."
The words just came, spontaneously. In all his years, he had never said those words... well, never without immediately following them with "you're an idiot" or something along those lines.
"I'm afraid of disappointing dad, even though he's gone. I'm afraid to look at you because I know I can't make up for what I've done to you. I'm afraid of Sasha because if my powers hadn't ran out when they did I would have just run away and I still dont know if she's forgiven me. I'm afraid of Ana because I'm not sure what kind of father I'll be. I'm afraid... so... I make it out like I'm more than I really am. I'm afraid that people will see right though me, and I'll just be the joke you already know me to be..."
He wasn't sure where he was going with this... but at least he wasn't lying anymore.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 3:01 pm
Tetsuo now wore a pair of baggy black cargo pants, a blank black t-shirt, and a plane black hoodie. He looked around the bar, feeling so out of place there. the tip of his tail ticked back and forth, showing how nervous he was. he was usted to hiding from places like this...but when nobody attacked or yelled at him, he calmed down a bit.
He looked around at the other people he had seen in the institute. catching the various conversations and the mixture of scents..Gold colored eyes took on a more cat-like gaze. Puples becoming wide slits...ready to react to anything.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 3:46 pm
"Hard not to be on the offensive, neh," Penance nodded and smiled at the new guy before getting up to grab a pool cue, "Don't worry. You're in good company."
She turned to Jacen, "You want to play? We need a fourth."
Jacen shook his head and passed, "I'll let you ladies fight it out."
"Suit yourself," Penance said and sipped some of his beer since her drink was already gone. No buzz. Too bad, that was life, "We need a fourth then. Rachael want to play?"
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 3:51 pm
"Hhhmmmm?" She was watching someone else playing at another table. "Me?" She asked blankly.
"No she was talking to the Rachael standing next to you....how many of those have you had so far?" Cathy said grinning.
"This would be my first....and sure....I'm not really good but I'll play..." She said picking a cue off the rack.
"I'll give you a refill in a sec Rach....just sit back and watch me waste little Penny here..." She gave Penny a slightly arrogant smirk.
((Let the rivalry begin!))
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 3:57 pm
"Oh really?" Penance thought that was interesting. Truth was, she wasn't used to blatant competition. It was different when it came from Jacen or one of the other guys. Penance had been the unproclaimed Queen Bee of the younger X-Men for a long while. She had to remind herself she was gone for over a year.
After racking the balls, Penance removed the triangle and offered the first break up to Cathy. Leaning back against the wall she watched. She already knew that Cathy had similar inherant abilities than her own. Usually that was Penance's advantage in any game. Not that she was worried, she'd be doing this stuff for a long time.
And in her head, the game became a competition.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:04 pm
Rachael had seen that preditory look in Cathy's eyes before. It usually ment she was coveting someone elses property. But in this instant she knew Cathy was actually mapping out the whole game.
Cathy with a smile tapped a finger against her cheek as she moved to make the break. With smooth persision she sent the cue ball cleanly into the triangle and sent one of the corner balls into a pocket the rest broke cleanly. "Stripes...." She said simply. She thought over her next move for a second before deciding that there wasn't any good shots open to her. She settled for the next best thing. she took a random shot in order to minimise Penny's chances of sinking in a shot. "You're up..." She said as the cue ball settled between the 8-ball and the 9-ball.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:26 pm
OOC: Heh, I can barely remember how to play pool myself. I had to look up which numbers were stripes and solids smile
IC:
Penance smirked. She'd seen the set up before. Last time she played with Logan, she left him with the same shot. That was a game Penance didn't win. She had no worries. All it took was a steady hand and steady was something she had no problem with. The angle was another problem. She had one shot she could make but it had to hit the bumper in the right spot.
Stealing a bit more of Jacen's beer, she went to take her shot. The angle she took was sharp as she leaned up on the side of the table to reach it. Steady... It had enough power to get the cue out of trouble but not enough power to do the damage she wanted to do. Penance knicked the 6 ball into a pocket but the cue ended up in a shot she liked even less. She settled for getting it out of danger.
"All you."
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:41 pm
((Isn't it even solids and odd stripes? I'm no pool buff myself...I'm improvising for all I'm worth))
She took a sip of her own beer thinking on it for a minute or two. She slowly walked around the table thinking on it. She then spotted a shot she liked and set up for a shot ar the 11 ball in the far corner. This would involve using the 2 ball as the object to send it in. Steadily she took aim checked her angle and sent the shot out. She hit the 2 ball cleanly and sent the 11 ball into the corner pocket.
"Nice shot..." Rachael complimented from the sidelines.
Cathy gave a small grunt spotting a tricky shot. She had to do a bit of twisting and leaning to get the angle right but she tried it...and scratched the cueball as some drunk tosssed a ice cube into her exposed belly button...she was wearing a short shirt. eek stressed scream Cathy grabbed a chalk block and beamed him in the forhead then followed up with the icecube he tossed at her before pulling her shirt down. "Jerk..." She mumbled. "....you're shot..." She grunted sourly.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:54 pm
What a way to ruin a game of sport. Although, it did shed a bit of light on the entire game. They were in a bar and it was a game.
"What an a**," Penance said. She watched the guy sit down, "You know, his shirt is baggy enough... Got an ice cube?"
Rachael handed her one. Penance flicked it off of the wall at an angle where it landed down teh guy's sweatshirt. She turned back to the game innocently, "Score. Okay, pool shark, you play alot or just banking on abilities?"
Penance took her turn sending in two solids. There was nothing exciting about the shots. They were clean. Her last shot was a scratch from Jacen slapping her a** while on the way to get a refill.
"Eh, only fair, I guess." Penance shrugged.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 6:02 pm
Jamie got a beer from Harry and sat down to watch the pool match. He'd considered playing but when the game started up, he was glad he wasn't playing. He had rarely seen something escelate in such a subtle and quick way. Something about it made it obvious that neither Penny nor Cathy would accept losing.
Jamie noted what was happening with interest, and slowly drank some of his beer. He saw a competitive fire in Penny's eyes, and he began to realize just how long she'd been gone. Huh, it's been awhile since I've seen that.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 6:09 pm
"So when do we start placing our bets on this," Porter asked nodding over to the pool table. He was humored by the intensity of a simple game. He was more humored knowing that Penance was about to become one of Cathy's trainers. The irony humored him.
Popping the top off of a beer, he leaned back to relax.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 6:15 pm
She smiled sweatly at the man as he looked in her direction trying to get the ice cube out from his shirt. "Nice shot..." she complimented. "I'm running on pure skill here..." She smiled at Jacon as he got touchy feely with Penny. "Get a room you two...." She chalked up her cue stick and found her next shot. She sent a stripe into a side pocket before bouncing one into a corner pocket. "Wow...it's dead even.....you might be better than I thought....." She said grudgingly. "Eh...I haven't played in a while...."
"Will you just keep playing already..." Rachael interupted. Rachael was now on her second drink. A much harder drink than was probably nessissary. A rum and coke. She found that she actually liked them so ordered herself another. She had a nice flush to her cheeks and a slightly silly grin on her face at the moment.
"Sheesh...alright already...." She smiled secretly knowing that Rachael had hit her limit....and had half the glass to go. She sank another stripe and missed a fourth shot. She shrugged. "Still close..."
((I think this leaves me with 5 to your 3 and there should be 2 stripes left and 4 solids left including the 8 ball. So I need two and the 8 to win and you need 3 and the 8 to win...I think...I may have calculated that wrong though. sweatdrop ))
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 6:41 pm
OOC: Heh, actually, so we don't have to crown a winner, I'm going to take a liberty here with our drunk patron. I don't want to create an immediate grudge on either side wink
IC:
Penance smiled, "Rachael, you might want to slow up there. We still have a long night ahead."
Cathy was a tough competitor. Penance lined up her next shot but it was rudely interrupted as the drunk patron sloshed his beer onto their table and hung over it, "Ladies..."
Mid sentence he stumbled literally into the middle of their game and changed the direction of much of the table, "Could I interest either of you..." He didn't finish his sentence as he spilt more beer on himself.
"Are you fricken serious," Penance hit the butt of the stick off the table a bit pissed off.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 6:44 pm
Tetsuo had sat himself down to watch the pool game, sipping some soda from a straw. His tail calmly swishing back and forth, much like an amused cat's does.
While sitting there, some idiot said something about the "Lizard-man" that had been in the papers...killing people. He walked up near tetsuo, stomping on the end of his tail to get his attention...a big mistake.
He let loose one of thoes vicious roar-screams, pulling his tail out from under the man's foot. He dropped the glass of soda. Fliping up onto his hands on the stool like he was doing some sort of breakdance move, one foot straight out, claw out, right against the man's neck. He had leaned back, probably saving his life. Tetsuo growled, pulling back the one foot. then with a quick move, he slashed the man's belt, causing his pants to drop, much to the amusement of the rest of the bar as he waddled out while trying to hold his pants up...
(RANDOM!!! Oh...Tetsuo is a master of fighting while breakdancing...like crazy! because it just looks so damn cool...XD)
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