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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:40 pm
((*Time skip: One week*))
*It had been a long, torturous week for Ice. Knowing that his prize was in his hands, that if he chose he could go and touch the object of his affections, yet also knowing that to do so would ruin what was shaping up to be the most enjoyable year of his life, was agonising. He'd even had to refrain from spending any time just sitting outside the cell to watch his captive at rest, knowing that such attentions would fuel certain aspects of Corbin's nature. And so it was an entire week before Ice returned to the clear cell, opened the door and stepped within, red eyes flickering over the body before him, looking for signs of Corbin;s hunger. As a slight incentive, her was cut across the back of his knuckles, fresh vitae dripping onto the floor*
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:15 pm
With a twitch in his eye lid, as Ice entered the cell, and Schnider's un-divided attention on the scene from his room on the other side of the clear cell wall, Corbin opened his eye.
"Its hard to tell, in this place void of sun, or moonlight. But its been about a week, hasen't it."
Smirking some, still in that posture he had taken when he first arrived here, Corbin looked up at Ice, not bothering to even glance at the open wounds on his knuckles.
"So, you gave in first, huh?"
Chuckling some, Corbin turned to stare once more at the same spot he had been all this time, and closed his eye again.
"You really do have a slack opinion of me, fiend. You'll know when i'm hungry."
Under these circumstances, vitae was draining so slowly from the Diablerist. He didn't move, so circulation was minimal, and without his disciplines, or abilities to sock up counts, he was left with the lowest rate of consumption possible. Aside from that fact, Corbin was a camal for vitae, and plasma. As a diablerist and hellion of his kind, he drank gluttoniously, esspecially before he had come, it was what sustained his ability to command so many disciplines.
He could last atleast two weeks, if he remained focused, and refused to allow his hunger to drive him. he was shooting for atleast that two week mark.
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Corbin DeSeer Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:14 am
*A slight smile, that was all, then the soft sound of the door closing once more and the lock turning. Whatever Ice thought of Corbin's impressive ability to manage his blood, not a word of it was spoken. IT would be another week before the Tzimisce tried the same test again, though this time, he brought fresh vitae from the Kine, instead of allowing his own blood to play catalyst. Again, he simply entered, and watched for the signs*
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:00 am
Inside the cell, this extra week on, Corbin still kneeled, however his nails were chipped, and knuckles bruised. If it weren't for the fact that the icey cell repaired itself, there wouldn't be much left to the floor. His left eye was bloodshot, and his tail betrayed him, by openly expressing the hunger as it lashed about across the floor, then made a harsh crack against the wall, shattering the ice before it reformed.
As Corbin glared at Ice, his muscle mass having diminished some, the German entered behind Ice, and cleared his throat.
"Ahem..Mr Ize, if you dont mind terribly, i'd like to tezt zee vitae you are ovvering zee general. I mean no ovvenze zir..Its juzt Roan'z orderz."
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Corbin DeSeer Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:31 am
Keep away from him. Get too close to your boss and he'll murder you. He is a diablerist after all.
*Ice then turned his eyes to Schnieder*
I wasnt intending to let him consume this, but test it if you must - it wouldnt do to upset Vengeance after all.
*He held the small container out to Schnieder, then dipped the tips of is own claws into it and crossed the room until he was just outside Corbin's grab range, but NOWHERE would be safe from the monstrous tail*
So, how are you feeling puppy? Ready to do tricks for your master yet?
*He licked one of his fingers slowly, deliberately clean, watching Corbin as the scent of vitae filled the space between them*
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:37 pm
Nodding, Schnider had faith in Ice to this point..However dipped his own finger into the vitae as Ice had, before taking a step back outside the prison room. Licking the vitae from his finger, just enough to taste, he sighed, satisfied.
Corbin glared hatfully at Ice, and his tail smashed against the wall once more. As with any Cainite, reasoning was far from stable at this point however he still knew if he was going to attack Ice, he would fail. His eye however caught Schnider, still with vitae on his finger.
Narrowing his eye, Corbin fixed his eye on the German, and just as the Samedi realized he had become the subject of interest, Corbin's tail shot to the cieling and quickly slithered over Ice's head then back down towards the door.
Remembering well enough what had happened the last time the Diablerist's tail caught him, Schnider hastily slammed the cell door shut, and went wide eyed as coils of the tail smashed into the door. Astonished at how much strength the tail still had, even though the rest of Corbin's body looked so weak and frail.
Having failed, Corbin roared in anger, before letting his tail return, and coil defensivly about his lower body.
Glaring back at Ice once more, snarling, he lowered his head, staring at Ice's fingers, as he hissed through grinding jaws.
"..Fine..."
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Corbin DeSeer Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:17 pm
You lie poorly my friend.
*The smirk was back in place, filled with fang*
But if you insist, I'll take what little sustenance I thought you deserved away again. Prehaps tomorrow you will be sensible enough to not lie to me... BEFORE this reduces you to nothing more than a slavering mutt?
*He licked a second finger clean, obviously relishing the taste*
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:10 am
Baring his teeth at Ice with a low growl that shook his chest, Corbin lunged forward from his knees at the Syn. He was however of course caught by the collar and chain, and flinched with a hiss as the haemoxinate was injected into his throat. He however still reached his claws out at Ice, almost barking as his tail began intricately coiling in patterns and slamming down on the floor at Ice.
"IIIIIICE!"
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Corbin DeSeer Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:04 am
Well, at least you know my name, instead of the ludicrous pseudonyms you seem to have for me. There's a good boy.
*Ice kept out of the way of the dancing tail, then sat back on his haunches and cleaned the rest of his fingers off*
Time for another lesson. Listen carefully, this concerns you.
*His eyes never strayed from Corbin, or the tail that moved behind him, but as ever, the mischief lurked in his eyes as he spoke*
We go back to our dear friend Arquistas. At this point in history, Roan thinks she has succeeded in killing her sire, and has been led, rather unsuspectingly I might add, by one of our agents to the Tremere mage, who has promptly gone about the process of restraining our dear heroine much as you are now. She has the Daemon blade - she wouldnt have been able to destroy Lye's body without it, and it is for this reason we have taken this course of action. Though she thinks she was simply created on the spur of the moment, she, as all of you, has been chosen by Syn. But I digress - that is for the future. The Daemon is dangerous, and she is still so new to his presence that with the blade out of her grasp, she does not know how to commune with him and is thus next to powerless with far reduced Disciplines to her current self.
*Ice lifted the container of vitae and stared into the red liquid, watching as it danced to form figures, moving accordingly as he spoke*
Our mage proceeds to begin the training she will need to one day serve the cause. She is starved. To the point of near frenzy - something far too easy in Brujah I might add - starved as you are being. Initially, she resists. She refuses to obey, and refuses the vitae presented to her. In the dueness of time, she does indeed frenzy, she lets it get that far, and the Beast in her is frightening, a sign of her lineage. She is restrained by her captors' servants, force-fed just enough vitae to once again bring her to her senses, and the whole cycle starts over again. It takes a phenominal two months before the message starts to sink in, and she finally does one thing she is asked. She gorges that night - at least, that is how she feels. One kine child is all she is granted, but compared to the long weeks of starvation, it is a banquet. The next day... the resistance starts once again. It takes a further three months before she finally breaks and obeys more often than not, and ceases to wither like the corpse she is due to lack of food. A milestone has been reached.
*Ice fixed Corbin in his gaze once more*
I do not have five or six months to get through this stage with you, I suggest you learn faster. Now, I will ask you again, and you will answer me civilly if you wish to eat today... how are you feeling? And are you ready to obey?
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:31 pm
So..Roan had lasted far longer then he had. Corbin had thought he was special, and atleast on par with Roan. The truth was he hadn't, and probably couldn't last as long as her.
Lowering his head, he forces his tail down to coil about him. The tail tightly wraps about his legs as he kneels, and about his torso, as if trying to guard him from the staggeringly sad realization.
"Hungry, and yes...Deceit.."
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Corbin DeSeer Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:26 am
Good. At least you have sense.
*In truth, Corbin's abilities were mpressive - what Ice deliberately HADNT mentioned was the fact Roan had let herself fall into torpor whenever she could to avoid her captors, and it took one hell of a lot to waken her from that without using vitae to ply her. That... and she whad been a stubborn little b***h even back then*
Let us move our lesson onwards then. Roan HATED Arquistas. This was only natural. When she was being trained, the DeSeer name meant nothing - it was a footnote in history, the remarkable story of an entire family, in both the UK and Europe who were wiped out over the course of two years. No one knew why. No one cared. Before Roan could rebuild her name, she had had to destroy all that it was to the living. Now I mentioned before she was restrained similar to how you are now. The difference was, that she was chained in his sight at all times to the chair he held within the very busy court he led in Europe. Privacy for her torment was denied.
*A cigarette appeared from somewhere, Ice setting the small bowl of vitae down at his side, still out of reach*
In time, we shall move on with you, but considering all that the name means these days, it would be unfitting to have subjected you to the humility you must learn in public. Say thank you. Once you have learnt, then we shall see without you feeling a slur against the noble name you now bear.
*A smoke ring as he paused*
Arquitas was a lecherous old soul, and his basic training with Roan, once it started, was quite simple. He began with teaching her to come when called, to kneel with respect, and to address him as sir. Simple, easy things, but to someone whose pride is bigger than a mountain, so very hard to accept. But witholding vitae is a good incentive, and in time, the actions become normal, less objectinable, common place. And so we shall start with you.
*Ice stood, picking up the small bowl and moved to the wall Corbin was chained to, away from him*
Come, kneel before me, and you shall be fed. Simple, is it not?
*He chuckled, remembering Corbin's spartan comment at the mansion a few weeks ago*
For I am kind.
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:24 am
Listening, though only capable of truely grasping some of what Ice said, Corbin continued staring at the floor, sickened by his own actions already. He did have some thanks, that this wouldn't be common knowledge, his taming, but that was a poltry grace.
It was at this new request though that his pupil dialated, and his arms shook, open hands on the floor turning to fists as he quaked with fury.
.: Whats the big deal, kid? You've always acted civil enough before when it mattered. :.
.: The hag bags are right, runt. You've knelt for the Camarilla before. You've knelt for Raoul. Just get it over with. I thirst. :.
.: This is DIFFERENT. I kneel before my king. My empire. My Camarilla..But to kneel to HIM.... :.
Slowly, with a sigh, Corbin rose to his feet, his tail still coiled around him only just loose enough to allow his legs to carry him over to Ice. Not showing his face to the fiend, he stood shaking for a moment. Slowly, he lowered his shoulders, and he looked about to kneel. At the last moment however, there was a loud hocking gurgle, before he raised his head, and stared Ice down, towering over him and spat a mix of saliva, and his own blood, after biting the inside of his cheek in Ice's face.
Grinning, rather patheticly, he offered first a chuckle.
"Kind...Says the fiend that told me not that long ago..To abbandon all humanity left in me. Kind..Thats a laugh."
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Corbin DeSeer Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:31 am
*Ice raised one delicate eyebrow, then wiped the dapness form his face with one delicate hand, discarding the bloody liquid on the floor, where it did not freeze, but instead lay like a challenge between the two*
It would see hunger takes the edge of your intelligence my little spartan. Still... irony is wasted on dogs.
*He stepped away from Corbin, with the container of vitae, raising no hand against him, and out of reach*
Today you will not eat, nor will you tomorrow. Congratulations, the only sustanence you'll be getting between now and then is your own mess, if you fall low enough to lick it up puppy. Prehaps when next I stop by, you'll have learnt some humilty and sense.
*He opened the door and stepped out, his smirk wicked as the key turned once more in the lock*
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:36 am
All through ice's little speech, Corbin smirked, satisfied with his standing up to the fiend. That pride...Might just keep him from falling too far between now, and his next feeding, though either way, it wasn't something he was going to forget. He had said he was going to make Ice work for it..It was easy enough for Ice so far..Perhapes he could atleast make the fiend wait. Corbin however still had that impatient, trigger happiness about him, that his father had.
"Then its a date..Fiend."
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Corbin DeSeer Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:40 am
((*time skip - two nights later*))
*Hooves on the hard ice rang out once more, as Ice wandered back to Corbin's cell, this time carrying a lot more with him than just one bowl. In his left hand hung a satchel, full of teh things he may need this evening, because as he had remarked before - he didnt have several decades to bring Corbin up to scratch. Stepping into the cell, he tapped on the clear wall into Schenider's wauters, beckoning the aide to join them*
Good evening pup. How are you feeling?
*To his credit, Ice didnt let his eyes slide towards the scene of their last confrontation, but instead kept them solely focused on his charge*
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