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Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 5:43 pm
Avalon sat in the cafeteria sucking down an apple juice box. Three others sat in front of her untouched, one was discarded empty to her side. Apple juice seemed to be the only console to her scratchy throat that the hospital was able to provide. Nice ice cold, sweet, apply juice.
The cough syrup was gross. The popsicles tasted all mediciny. Ice cubes were just too bland, and Avalon was picky with her juices. Apple was the best they had. Mother had been sneaking her Italian gelato for the past few days after Avvie had thrown such a fuss about the hospital's food... She also snuck Avvie in her laptop, well her mother's laptop, Avvie's was stolen in the organ trafficking incident.
That is when Avvie got the brilliant idea to start a LARPing clan. It was winter. Brisk. Chilly. Cold. But, Avvie needed to get away from the drama that was now her life... and make new friends. So to remedy these problems, she sent out an impromptu internet flier via Facebook to the teenagers of Destiny City.
:: NEW!!! DESTINY CITY LARPING CLAN ::
Meet me in the Destiny City Hospital Cafe. Take a step into our fairy tale of Papillonaria. Let's save the world.
Your Fairy, Aine
Here Avalon was, sucking down apple juice, and waiting for people to arrive. She had theft some computer paper and a handful of pens from one of the nurse stations. A paper in front of her had her player name, Aine scrawled out on it. A fairy in a hospital gown was scribbled in the corner. It looked like Avalon, but her hair was down, and instead of an indifferent expression, Aine was beaming and looking vibrant.
"I just want to get away..." Avvie mused to no one taking the last slurp of apple juice from the box and discarding the empty carton. She opened up another juice box.
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Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 6:40 pm
Ignacio was busy updating his status.
Nacio Araya wishes that his father would shut up with the Meadowview crap already.
His 'friends' total was gloomy. Ignacio wasn't sure why he bothered going on the site. Maybe he thought that there would be some miraculous update from the friend he had lost or maybe something interesting besides FarmVille requests. He was about to exit out the site when his Inbox suddenly had a '1' next to it, and out of curiosity, he clicked.
The note sparked his curiosity, and he decided to tell his mother that he was going to take a trip to the Destiny City Hospital Cafe. While she wondered why he'd want to go in on her day off, Ignacio was soon gone before she could ask any further questions.
It didn't take Ignacio too long to walk there; his family didn't live too far off from the hospital since his mother worked there and they only really had one car. It was chilly outside, but he could live. He was more interested to see what this whole 'LARPING' deal was about. Soon enough, he was at the cafe, and he soon managed to figure out that the beaming girl with a stack of papers probably was the girl who had sent out the Facebook message.
Still, to be sure, Ignacio walked up to her table, leaned on a chair, and asked with a curious purse of the lips. "Are you Aine?"
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Codebreaking Conversationalist
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:38 pm
Avvie looked up at the new arrival and gave the freckled boy a half smile. She got this strange feeling she had seen the boy somewhere before, must have been at the school, before she went unconscious and couldn't remember everything. Who was he? She must have known his name. Had she met him or just seen him in passing? Was he a student at all? Avalon's mind reeled but she couldn't quite put her finger on it or why.
At any rate, Avvie gave a quick nod and outstretched her hand.
"Welcome friend. Let's save Papillonaria together." She singsonged and passed over a piece of paper and a pen to Ignacio.
"Just a few things before we embark on our trip!"
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:50 pm
She looked familiar too, but with her hair down he couldn't pinpoint who she was. Perhaps it was better that way. Ignacio, at the moment, just figured he might have known her before the accident, and it wasn't until he heard her voice that something clicked in his mind. Ooh, someone else from Barren Pines.
Who was it, though? Aine was an unfamiliar name for obvious reasons, and he hadn't really cared about the name of the girl who had sent out the message, only the message. No matter, Ignacio was soon handed some pieces of paper and his mind headed somewhere else.
"Hm? Like what?" He hoped it wasn't too much. Ignacio wasn't a fan of paperwork, and this was paper. With a pen. "And where shall Papillionaria be?" This was moreso a question of if they had to keep meeting in the hospital or if they would move elsewhere once they finished all of this... paperwork.
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Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:07 am
On Facebook, Alessa had many, many friends. All her classmates from her previous city were included, and several more from Meadowview (a few of which she didn’t even know in real life, and only added because their school was mentioned). However, much like in reality, almost nobody remembered and sent her personal messages. She received a message about an old friend’s birthday party in her old city, and reading it, sighed. Oh, wait, another message. A LARPing clan in Destiny City? Meeting at the hospital’s cafeteria? Who could send that? Why, one of those hospitalized students, of course? Hey, what if Azzo or Remi came? Here was something involving her more than the average invitation. “Hey, dad! I’m going to the hospital for a game!” she announced, putting on her coat and getting outside. Her father nodded, distracted, and glad to get the family computer back.
The brunette with a thick long coat entered the Cafe, and saw two teens busy talking. Had she arrived early? It would be hard to roleplay with only three people. She wasn’t too fond of that, however, she couldn’t turn down another opportunity to make friends. “Excuse me! Is it the right place for the LARPing clan?”
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Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 5:47 pm
Avalon was just about to answer Ignacio when Alessa showed up, not that she knew their names, the first had looked familiar, but the second, not so much. She just cocked her head to the side and smiled.
"This is the place." She handed over a piece of paper and a pen to Alessa.
"Just a few things before we can begin introductions.... we need all your information. Names, classes, skills, spells, all that sort of stuff! Just start jotting away."
There was no really format. Avvie held up her paper to show. It spiraled the words "Aine of Silverwind. Fairy Class. Adventuring sprite. Fairydust magic." over and over three times in the spiral.
There was no specific information. No details. No dice information. Nothing. Avvie was winging it, and she would wing it even more. This was just a game to her to collect friends and live her life the way she wanted to... saving a make believe world... as a fairy.
Avvie looked to both Ignacio and Alessa.
"So, what are your names?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:40 pm
Ignacio was just about to declare his name when he realized that his own name was not what Aine meant, so he shut his mouth once again.
...And shortly opened it. "My name is Sam d**k Hart." Poor, poor LARPers. Ignacio's grin, though, was wide and wild from ear to ear. "Sam d**k Hart the Troubadour." And so, he quickly scrawled this on the paper. This paperwork thing could be rather fun if all he was doing was thinking up names and classes and powers...
...Well, he could get used to this. Ignacio kept writing, eventually deciding that his class was "Bard," matching up with the fact that his name had the word Troubadour in it. And then, he started writing faster, an silly amount of abilities beginning to accompany his class. He was apparently maxed out in comedy and in song, and he also had a very high rank in sexy.
Yes, Ignacio was going to live in his egocentric, ridiculous comedy world and now everyone he was going to LARP with was going to be exposed to it. But hey, every adventuring group needed their local clown, right?
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Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:33 am
When she took the pen, Alessa actually did not have any idea of what she was supposed to write. Where were the dice? What were the available jobs? Stats? It dawned on her when she saw Avvie’s sheet. Oh, that kind of rp. So, actually, they could do whatever they wanted? NOW, that’s fun. But she still had no character in mind. Think fast, Alessa, think of someone badass and useful. And a name. A pretty name. The only class she could think of was a paladin. Both healer and defender of the weak. Lawful, and with a good excuse to swing a big sword around. “… Sora… my name is Soradiol… Clearfall”, she first mumbled before adding with much more conviction :“… I am a paladin, and I am the hand of Hustur!” Note to self: find out later who or what the hell could be Hustur. She scribbled all of this on her blank sheet, adding basic paladin skills such as healing hands, purifying lights and sword mastery, but also more exotic ones such as light armour and extra speed. She also figured it was a lot, and she would need to be an elf thing to have had the time to learn all of this. Better look badass now, it was probably the only time of her life she could be associated with that adjective.
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:24 am
Avalon could not help but giggle at the boy's player name. She brought a hand up to her mouth to stifle the immature giggling, but to no avail did it work to do anything. Attempting to pull herself together she spoke out between fits.
"It is nice to meet you dear Bard, Sam d**k Hart!" Saying the name herself set off another fit of hysteric giggling.
Avvie extended a hand to Soradiol.
"You as well, Ms. Clearwater! I hope we have great adventures together."
"Now then, for the real introductions..." Avvie dramatically brought a hand to her chest, "I am Avalon. Avalon Renee. But you may call me Avvie. It is a pleasure to meet you both. I hope we become the best of friends!" She smiled and cocked her head to the side.
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:06 pm
Aine was laughing? Then his work was done. He only grinned wider when she fell into yet another fit of hysteric giggling, and got up on purpose to bow slowly and dramatically at the waist. "It is a pleasure to meet you too, lovely fairy!" And then he winked obnoxiously as if he was trying to make a point, before he slipped back into his seat and resumed adding abilities to his paper.
Ten points in air guitar sounded good, and he liked the idea of having the ability to charm with his song. Oh yes. He would sing so masterfully (not really, Ignacio was an awful singer) and get all the people of the town to fall at his feet, wanting Sam d**k Hart so badly--
Okay, even Ignacio couldn't help snickering at himself as he continued to write out a few more abilities. Perhaps he should give himself alcohol tolerance plus one, in case this started out at a tavern like role-playing games so typically did. Nah, make that plus two. Or maybe plus three would be best... but wait, then he couldn't be comically drunk. Maybe he should give himself a negative modifier, and then he could sing badly in bars and still bring all the boys--and girls!--to the yard.
Ignacio tuned back into the conversation as the wheels were turning in his head, causing a ridiculously devious grin. "Real name? Ignacio Araya, but you can call me Nacio. Hope we become good friends too." Ignacio liked having more friends.
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Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 1:28 pm
Alessa snapped out of her daydreaming quickly. She’d been searching in her memories for heroic fantasy references, but couldn’t find much more than D&D or the basic plot of LoTR. Oh, well, she would have to make up stuff, and she was not that good at making up stuff. And she had missed completely Ignacio’s joke name, too. She looked at the rest of the group, seeming lost. “Did I miss something?” she asked embarrassingly in a semi-whisper. The brunette adjusted the glasses on her nose, pushing them further with her index and middle finger. “The name’s Alessa David, but you can call me… well… Alessa.” she deadpanned with a repressed chuckle. “I think we’ll get along well!” she stated with more enthusiasm.
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