|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 12:26 pm
  This is a private roleplay between Yue Lao [face your demons] and Sakngea [lungrot].
Setting:
Sakn stumbles into Yue Lao's work place after getting a fight. Bragging and boasting commences!
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 1:17 pm
Crunch.
The sound was beautiful, like a thousand angels singing in his ears. He couldn't help but laugh as the sound reverberated in the street. He didn't care if blood trickled down from the corner of his mouth, didn't care if the glow in his eyes was frightening.
Sakn grinned as he pulled his fist back, watching the man he had been fighting with stumble back and groan, holding his broken jaw gently as he stared at the gangly redhead. "You're mad!" his friends yelled as they pulled the beaten man away from the fight, running down the road and far far away.
Sakn just continued to laugh, calling after them, "YEAH YOU BETTA' RUN! Y'CHICKENS!"
He took a moment, then, to stop and breath. His whole body shook with excitement, and blood trickled down into his eye from a cut on his forehead; he was grinning like a mad man with red-stained teeth (he had bitten his cheek when the man had punched him before) before spitting on the ground. The bloodied fisherboy ignored the people who stared at him as they walked by, too busy deciding what to do next.
Perhaps a victory drink? At least the alcohol would sooth the pulsing headache that was growing as the adrenalin wore off. Sakn nodded to himself before walking down the street towards a small bar he had happened to notice before the fight had broken out.
He slipped inside, enjoying the warmth and buzzing voices that filled the room. He then slid into a seat and rested his head, cheek-first, against the cool counter top. He ached, but he was proud, and the coolness of the wood against his skin eased the pain in his jaw.
Hey, at least he had won!
The thought made a smile crawl back onto the redheads face and he raised a hand, waving down someone to bring him a well-earned drink(because he totally earned a drink after a fight like that!).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:27 pm
It was another night, much like any other of the hundreds Yue had spent working at the Ichi-Koi. She wasn't tired of it, though. The noise and the hustle made her feel like something was being accomplished. She was even learning about mixed drinks, which wasn't something her othermother had time to teach her. It was particularly busy then, so Yue didn't really notice Sakngea walk in at first. When the stranger flagged her down, however, she pushed a damp strand of hair out of her eyes. She was already on her way back to the bar, to refill on drinks and grab a cloth to wipe the spare tables down. She swaggered over, wooden tray at her side. It was still moist and chilled from the drinks she had just carried around the bar.
"Sweetheart, I think you're in the wrong part of the Ichi Koi if you're tired enough to be sleeping on my counter," she suggested, grinning down at him. "Assuming you wandered into the bar on purpose, and you're not looking for a pillow, I could bring you something to drink?..." Yue offered, stepping behind the counter and pulling up a vessel.
She surveyed what she could see of the redhead. His skin was a warm colour, and she thought that on what was exposed of his face, she could see marks of a recent fight. She felt a little disappointed she had missed whatever the action had been, but such was life. It was preferable to another fight breaking out in the bar again, anyway. She really disliked having to clean up splinters. They always found their way under her nails, or in her palms, and made work miserable until Chishio could remove them for her.
"What'll it be, friend?" She asked, leaning close to Sakn with her elbows on the counter, the mug in one hand, wooden tray set aside.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:16 am
He hadn't been listening when Yue first started speaking, and barely caught the end of her first sentence, but when she spoke next, he couldn't help but smile. A drink would be nice. Very very nice, because his head hurt and he figured this would be kill two birds with one stone.
"What'll it be, friend?"
Right. Ordering a drink. He groaned and opened his eyes (since when had he closed them!?). Sakn barely managed to lift his head without the headache quickly doubling(he groaned again, but it totally wasn't a pathetic groan), though he did manage to turn it enough to get a glimpse of the woman speaking to him. His eyes quickly met the girls intensely colored ones, and he couldn't help the stupid smile that covered his face. A pretty girl was offering him drinks after he got to punch someones lights out. It was as if he had died and gone to heaven.
"Gi--" he started, wincing as he found that talking while ones face is pressed against a counter top doesn't help to ease pain a sore jaw, before sitting up and trying again, slowly, "Gimme d'strongest thin'y'got," he managed before giving the magenta-haired girl a less idiot smile.
"An'in exchange I'll tell ya how I got des bruises," he offered, because in Sakngea's world, everyone was interested in him and would die to hear a story from him. Of course, this was the real world, but Sakngea didn't like to recognize that fact.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 1:14 pm
Yue Lao wasn't really sure it was a drink that he needed, looking as out of it as he did, but she wasn't one to stand between a man and his alcohol. "It's a good thing you're already sitting down, or I'd be afraid you'd fall asleep on your feet," Yue said, and laughed. Her eyes narrowed in amusement when the stranger smiled at her. She flipped her braid off her shoulder and pursed her lips, shifting her weight to one foot, balancing her hand on her hip. She had tilted her head out of habit to try and make eye contact with him while his face was pressed against the counter, but stood up straighter once he sat up.
She wondered how recently he'd gotten into whatever fight had given him those marks. "The strongest thing I've got? We'll see if you can handle that, sweetheart," she said, and winked at him. She turned around to the wall behind the counter and tapped the shelves with her finger, reading the names of the different drinks. She finally selected a distilled liquor called rice fragrance baijiu. It had 30% alcohol volume, and she heated it up quickly for him. Not so hot that the alcohol would suffer, but enough that it was a warming and heavy-hitting beverage. It was a clear liquid, and smelled faintly of rice. Yue filled a cup for him and brought it over, sliding it to him.
"Oh? So you have a story for me, neighbour?" Yue leaned her elbows on the counter and placed her chin in her palms. The bar had slowed down considerably since Yue last paused for a moment, and she noticed it was mostly regulars speaking in hushed tones, sloshing alcohol over their mugs, trying to chat with the other staff. She supposed she had a moment to listen to his story, though she was still working.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:01 am
Now, to be honest, Sakngea rarely visited the Ichi-Koi. He rarely spent any time at actual bars. Most of his experience with alcohol and drinking halls were in the dives down near the docks. He was used to bitter, harsh alcohol that was best cold and could knock even the biggest man out given enough time. So when the bar waitress came back with the pleasantly warm and good smelling drink, Sakn furrowed his brows.
He wanted drinks, not tea.
But he knew better, and sipped the drink cautiously. When he found that the taste was pleasant enough, he eagerly drink, body physically loosening with each swallow.
After thoroughly wetting his whistle, the redhead set down the cup and rested his own chin in his large grizzly palm. "I saw d'way y'wus lookin' at these cuts," he stated proudly, even though he had not seen the girl looking at him. It helped to interest her in the story, and was a good way to draw people in, "Wouldja believe me iffin' I said I fought a man 'oo had t'be," he scratched his chin then, trying to find a way to best describe his earlier opponent, "three times as big as me!"
While this was yet another distraction, it wasn't completely dishonest. From there Sakn described the fight, how he had pummeled the guy into the ground, and how truly proud he was. Because he was proud!
So when he came to the end of his tale, the fisherboy was grinning like a fool; his cup was empty, his face was flushed under his smattering of scales, and he raised a brow in the magenta lady's direction. Telling that story, and the alcohol, had warmed him up, making Sakn feel much more pleasant and lively. "Tell me y'can top tha' lil' gem!" he eagerly exclaimed, pointing a friendly finger at the bright-eyed girl.
Because in Sakngea's mind, no ones stories could top his!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:24 am
If the stranger was looking for nothing more than an easy way to get drunk, the baijiu would be wasted on him. Yue couldn't help but wonder at his exact tastes when it came to alcohol; he definitely seemed more focus on its strength rather than the subtleties of its flavour. It wasn't as though he would be the first; many others came to the Ichi-Koi just to get drunk. They didn't care about the taste or quality of their alcohols, but rather how fast they could forget whatever they were running from, or ease whatever pain they felt.
Still, regardless of the stranger's opinion of the beverage she served him, he drank it. Yue watched him relax in degrees, until he was boasting about his cuts and his fight. Yue laughed. "You're just full of triumphs and combat, neighbour. Three times, you say? Wide, or tall?" Yue grinned and winked at Sakn. "What about me, think we'd make for an interesting fight?" Yue suggested, grinning. She had, truthfully, only recently begun training with the Meteor Hammer, instead of her tekko. The fighting style had to be adjusted significantly, though she still trained her bone-breaking art in case she ever got too close to her opponent.
Yue listened with moderate interest to everything Sakn said. She, naturally, assumed much of it was embellished, but she grinned in amusement at the material of the story and the manner in which it was delivered. Of course, it was really Sakn's way of communicating that made him so interesting. Yue found it occasionally hard to understand him, though. After his story, Yue offered to fill his cup again before she volunteered one of her own. She didn't really have any brawl conquests she felt like talking about at that moment, and the most important fight she had ever been in...well, it was still a little painful to recall the knife wound in Jianyu's side, and the feeling of her fingers slick with blood as she slit the neck of a Noble with a broken bottle.
"Top? Maybe not," Yue said, laughing, "but I do have a story of triumph and honour! Back when I still fought hand to hand, I caught a couple thieves trying to steal from my boss." Yue paused briefly, because it had taken extra concentration not to say "othermother." She pumped the air a couple times with her fists, harmlessly, in jest. "I knocked one of them unconscious and threatened to break every single bone in the other Lunarian's body should he ever return." Yue didn't add a lot of details to her story, or even exaggerate very much.
"Do you get in fights often, new friend whose name is...?" Yue asked, winking.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 7:57 am
Sakn felt warm with the first drink, and when Yue offered him a second, he took the cup with a little more respect. He wasn't a heavy drunkard, and now that he had a slight buzz running through his body, he took the second drink and actually tried to enjoy this new treat. It was definitely better then most drinks he was used too, and he set it aside as the girl continued to speak.
She was entertaining, and while he had given her a smart-assed smile when she mused a fight between the two of them(he would totally win, because he was just obviously stronger!), she hadn't irritated him yet. He even whistleed when she told her story(as plain and simple as it was). She spoke proudly and with a sureness that Sakn didn't see in most the women he spoke to before.
It was like talking to a crewmate. He was comfortable and sure maybe it could be the alcohol, but he liked to think it was just that this magenta-haired girl was entertaining to be around.
"Do I get'n many fights, y'ask?" he mused, joking stroking his chin before leaning back and gesturing widely, "Fightin' is life!" he leaned forward just as quickly as he had moved back, and winked at the barlady, "Dus tha'answer y'ur question?" because that was the only way Sakn knew how to explain it. He loved to fight, loved the feel of his fist connecting with skin, the feel of winning, of doing his best; showing the world how strong he really was!
"I's Sakngea, by d'way," he added with a smile, offering a hand to the curious lunarian. While most the time Sakn never bothered to offer a hand to a woman, he felt the need to this time. He had a feeling that him and this girl would get along well. "An' y'urself?" he added, because he couldn't go around calling her 'that girl from the bar' all the time, now could he?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 10:45 am
Yue Lao had been slowly watching the bar empty as time progressed, to the point where she felt about ready to turn her apron in and relax. The buzz Sakn seemed to have made her feel as though she could use one, too; rarely did she ever drink, however. Yue Lao loved being in her right mind, nothing to cloud her judgement and her senses. Sometimes it seemed as though the alcohols allowed Lunarians to relax, though. To be comfortable. Yue was not so much a comfort individual as a constant-motion one. Always fluidly shifting from one position to another, leaning, moving, watching, thinking. Yue didn't really switch off.
She appreciated that Sakn seemed to be drinking more slowly on the second cup. It meant he would probably stay lucid longer; a useful trait. In response to his smart-assed smile, Yue only flashed him her own predatory grin. If that train of thought would allow her to provoke him into a fight... well, why not? She did love to fight, and she had only met Lunarians who were easy to get along with, of late. Apart from one or two... but Yue preferred fighting with someone enjoyable. Fighting someone out of anger or frustration was not half as fun as fighting to win, and use everything she had. Yue gave him a half bow with a flourish when her simple recounting was over. She hadn't gone into detail for an important reason: the men she had fought were Nobles. She didn't want to bring allegiance into question, here.
Yue Lao wondered if Sakn was always so emphatic. She sincerely hoped that he was, that he was a forceful energy impossible to ignore. "Is that so? It does, yeah, answers it pretty effectively. What a way to live...!" Yue said. She wasn't upset, or even feigning shock. The biggest grin she'd offered that night was stretched across her face. Yue loved the contact of skin to skin, and the reason she had started fighting with a Meteor Hammer was not to avoid that, though... she did think she would benefit from avoiding the dizzying rush she got when she connected her skin to another's. The meteor hammer helped her minimize her weaknesses as someone who had been primarily a melee fighter. "So you're a hand-to-hand fighter, then?" She asked. She wondered if he always fought with his fists, and if so, what style. She asked these questions with a genuine curiosity and passion for the topic.
"Sakngea! I sense the beginning of a fiesty friendship," Yue laughed, accepting his offered hand. She shook it with some of the strength her tekko fighting had given her, the bone-breaking grip eased so that it was merely a challenge and not an assertion of some kind of dominance. She expected an equally fierce handshake, if not more. "My dear friend, I am Yue Lao, the one and only. Better not forget it," she said, with a wink.
"Apart from fighting and drinking, what else do you do for fun, Sakngea?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 2:47 am
When she asked him about his fighting style, Sakngea eagerly responded, "Best way t'fight is close and personal!" and that was his belief. Weapons were secondary; fists, in Sakngea's world, could solve every problem(with time!). And when She took his hand in hers, and spoke so positively of their 'feisty relationship', the redhead felt his grin become a full blown smile, returning her strong grip with his own, squeezing just enough to prove he worked a hard, good life(that he wasn't some frou-frou sissy).
Sakn definitely liked Yue(he quickly stored her name into his memory, along with her wide grin and strong grip), and as their hands separated, he couldn't help but feel a sudden respect for the girl. It was a strange thought, respecting a girl like he would a fellow man, but the redhead quickly got over it and gave Yue a exaggerated thumbs up and winked back at her. "W'uldn't forget the name of d'most interes'in' woman I've met in a while," he said bluntly before taking another sip of his drink(okay, maybe a couple sips. This sweet stuff was growing on him!) and listening to Yue's question.
"Besides them?" Sakn mused, before his eyes rolled up to the left as he thought, mouth slightly open as he thought about that. Did she want a list? Or should he choose one subject? What subject then?
Then it came to him, and the boy mentally smacked himself for not realizing it before, "Imma mean fisher, I will say! An'I can beat anyone at chess, checkers or any boardgame y'can think of!" Sakngea spoke excitedly now(a mixture of the alcohol and pure enjoyment) before polishing off his cup. He was the best in his own mind, so obviously it must be true.
"An' you? Whu' you do 'sept serve drinks and fight?" he asked with a certainty that Yue would have something interesting to say. She was most definitely an interesting girl. A good friend for the future.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 11:11 am
Close and personal? Yue grinned. She had once thought so, too, and sometimes missed it in her transition. But out there in the muddy streets with Jianyu she had failed to defend herself and her best friend; what good were her fists against arrows, across the barrier of distance? Then she had encountered the Meteor Hammer, and that fluke was some kind of blessing in her eyes for she had found a weapon which was both offensive and defensive, melee and ranged. "It's definitely a passionate way to fight," she said, agreeing with him but her smile didn't reach her eyes as she thought of the hard lesson she had learned to change her style. Yue appreciated the calculated effort he put into the handshake, and believed he would be a worthy opponent. He wasn't trying to hurt her, or prove he was stronger, which spoke more for his actual power.
Sakn's energy amped Yue Lao's energy up. She couldn't help but feel both violent and antsy talking to him; not that she wanted to cause him pain, she just wanted to get going, do something more than stand behind the bar talking. Yue laughed wholeheartedly when Sakn gave her the thumbs up and winked. She shook her head, though she was grinning, "Probably shouldn't encourage me, Sakn! I'm already getting restless here, talking about fighting." Yue's face drew into a mock pout for a few heartbeats. She smiled when she realized he really had started to like the drink better. It was quite possible that he had just had enough of it to start getting used to the taste (there was a bit of alcohol in it, after all). It was the kind of drink that snuck up on Lunarians: it didn't have enough alcohol to exhibit the burning taste, and it had a gentle smell and flavour, but that meant less caution when consuming it.
Yue nodded when he clarified her question. She hid a grin behind her hand as he thought with his mouth slightly open. Sakn was one of a kind, most assuredly. "You fish! I've never been fishing," Yue admitted. She didn't want to experience the discomfort of sinking to the bottom of the water and having to drag herself out. She found it unpleasant. "Boardgames? I also don't play a lot of those! I guess you would have something to teach me," she said, laughing. His confidence was refreshing. Yue didn't mind if it was big talk; she'd rather be pleasantly surprised if his bragging proved true than bored that he didn't feel strongly about anything.
"What do I do? That's a pretty good summary, really... I mean, I also brew drinks. I make my own. It's a labour of patience though," she said. "If I wanted to brew something right now, for example, I'd have to wait at least a year before I found out if it was any good!" Yue sighed, though her eyes still glittered with a smile. She didn't mind waiting. She wanted to improve faster, it was true, but she studied with Yowai in her downtime, so it wasn't as though she had to wait a year to learn more. "I do a little bit of everything I like!" she finished. Yue liked to experience other Lunarians' hobbies and see what made them so passionate. Like Cais and his glass-work. It was all about how it made someone feel, what it made them think. What it said about their being. She didn't gamble very much with Jianyu, but she did like to play cards with him. And with Kiran... well, eavesdropping, causing mischief, eating bento... they were fun activities. She thought back to all the time she had spent with her friends and couldn't help but grin. Would Sakn and Yue Lao have adventures to rival those others?
Standing at the bar with her elbow leaning on its smooth surface, she couldn't help but widen her grin and think, Yeah, Sakn and I could be a formidable team.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 11:28 pm
It was pleasant, the way they spoke. Sakngea found himself completely at ease around Yue. Her wide, eager smile and brave voice reminded the redhead much of himself; she wasn't afraid to be herself it seemed, and he most definitely admired that.
So it was no surprise that they spoke for quiet some time, talking more about fighting, drinks and fishing(along with many other things). Sakn watched his glass empty and refill(as if by magic) many times before finally the fisherboy found his legs itching to move and his joints loose; muscles at ease and just the slightest bit drunk. So Sakn downed the last of his drink and gave Yue another eager smile. He knew it was time to move on now, but something told him this wasn't to be a single, one-time thing.
"Well, YuYu," the boy spoke in drunken fashion, his eyes lighting up playfully as he slapped a nickname on the friendly bartender-girl, "I'h w'ud seem i's time fur me to move on outta here, buh," Sakngea stopped for a moment as he slid off his stool before turning back to face Yue again, "iffin ya wanna come wit'me, I w'udn't mind da company," and while this may have been a line he would often use with other women quiet often, this time it was harmless. A question asked because Sakn didn't want his time with such a fascinating woman to be over so quickly.
He then smiled and waved before heading towards the door. Even if Yue couldn't come out tonight, they most definitely would see each other again. Most definitely.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
