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iStoleYurVamps

iStoleYurVamps


Trash Husband

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:26 pm


He was a mystery. She'd seen him in passing the hottie mc tottie, but not her type. Too tall. He did have an interesting weapon, landing on her interview list. Waiting in her temp office, Solia looked at her set up, the coffee and creamer fresh, the small candy dots on the table ready for the hunter. Golems had nothing offered for them. They couldn't eat. Or rather they could try but that wasn't a good idea.

Still, Solia sat and silently waited for the clock to hit the time alloted for the interview. They didn't show well.. they'd not get paid.
PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:37 pm


Jack took the use of "interview" quite seriously. He arrived ten minutes before the agreed time in a sharp suit and tie. Owain was practically giddy at the prospect of being able to walk, intrigued by the concept of golems, and even he cracked a hint of a smile prior to hitting the labs; it was gone by the time he reached Solia.

After checking that he had indeed arrived early, he extended his hand in greeting. "You brought coffee," he noted, pleased. "I will preface this encounter by saying it might very well all be gone by the time this is over."

(( Hurry, dear one, I have limbs to stretch and jaws to pop and things to crush! ))

iStoleYurVamps

medigel

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iStoleYurVamps

iStoleYurVamps


Trash Husband

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 8:41 pm


She liked him. Suit and on time? Oh lord have mercy she liked this interview already.

"Hello!" Grabbing his hand she gave it a light squeeze. "Solia Delacroix as you might know. I trust you found the golem already set for you?" She motioned for him to sit.

"Now a few simple rules before we begin. There will be no silencing of your weapon. If you attempt to with hold information freely given by your weapon, I will note it as suspect. Please don't do this, I really don't like having to report that kind of stuff because really you're just scarred your weapon will talk about your d**k size or something okay.
Second, no fighting. Simple enough, but the focus is on not you, but your weapon. They are they're own person.
Third- Please do help yourself to the refreshments. That's it. Now...." She flipped through her paper, smiling as she reached the right one.

"Name, race, species, and the first memory you have. Real or imagined."
Ol-j-man
PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 9:39 pm


"Understood. He was . . . eager to get out," Jack noted with a slight eye twitch as the giant roared his own approval, shaking Solia's hand. He snorted at the idea that Owain had anything to spill of note--

--aside from possibly certain personal things, but surely the quick death glare he sent his partner was a suitable deterrant--

--and snatched up a cup of coffee and drank with a satisfied look.

Owain stood tall, as giants were wont to do (practically as tall as the hunter himself), and seemed to have come out of Greek myth--well, save for the pince-nez--with his frugal clothing and ancient air. The leaves that hung off his branches, as well as those that formed his "hair", shook softly as he stretched himself out. He then promptly began hopping in place like a giddy child.

"Oh this is exquisite!" he tittered, examining himself with utter glee. "Dear one, why have we not tried these moving statues sooner?! I feel so utterly alive!"

"Owain," Jack said flatly.

The giant stopped jumping after a few more bounces, though his eyes were still lit up. Owain viewed the chair he was apparently supposed to sit in, glanced at Solia, and then guffawed. "May I stand? My first words must be done proud and on my feet, you must understand, oh this is wonderful, wonderful--" He stopped himself, cleared his throat, and touched his lenses.

"I am Owain Gwydion, a proud cewri--ah, a forest giant, to be plain, and a monster to be more general. My first memory, ah . . ." He squinted at the ceiling and tickled the beard-leaves at his chin, deep in thought for ten straight seconds. "Hmm . . . Yes. First memory. Well, I suppose, ah--Well, it would be the first time I felt dear Jack's presence of course!" Owain proclaimed with a wide smile. "A terribly grumpy giant himself, but a charming boil on the inside, I can assure!"

iStoleYurVamps

medigel

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iStoleYurVamps

iStoleYurVamps


Trash Husband

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 10:14 pm


To Solia, tallness was just an annoyance unless directly commented on. She'd gotten better but. Oh well. Nothing could be done.

Alas.

"You can stand or sit. So long as it won't alter answers? I don't mind really. My neck would probably hurt after a while though." She laughed it off. Writing his name given down, along with the information, she nodded and held the pen to her lips.

"You were about to call yourself something aside from a forest giant. Please, say so. Even if I might not understand, anything and everything might help later. But You first memory is of Jack. Was it down in the coves, or elsewhere? Anything that struck you in those moments? Feelings? Sight? Smell? Anything that was difficult to place or explain?"

Ol-j-man
PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 11:17 pm


"Oh, ahah!" the giant chortled. "I suppose it would be inconveniencing like this . . ." Without warning Owain dropped to the ground with a thunk, languidly stretching out before Solia. And still forgetting about the chair.

Jack rolled his eyes and drank his coffee.

"There we go! Now, that was the whole word, small one: cewri." He looked so proud. "That's Welsh, that is. More elegant than simply saying forest giant, wouldn't you say? And without the connotations of supposed lesser intellect! Why, if I were at the library this instant . . ." Owain sighed with pleasure. The technology and history at Deus fascinated him to no end; but then again, so did phones.

He tilted his head curiously at Solia's question. "Elsewhere? Could I have met him somewhere other than the cove?" he couldn't help but ask. "I was not aware! But as far as my memory goes, I distinctly remember . . . metal." Owain spread into a grin as he glanced at Jack. "Ah yes, I remember it now! When our consciences first touched, he immediately though of metal walls to try and secure himself; it was of course fruitless, but the effort was quite valiant! Specifically he was thinking of ti-tay-nee-um," he spelled out. "Curious composite! Not anything I had ever heard of before. May I ask what the bonding process was like for you?"

iStoleYurVamps

medigel

Anxious Spirit



iStoleYurVamps

iStoleYurVamps


Trash Husband

PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:05 pm


"Cewri." Solia spoke it with a distinct accent. French and letting it roll out on her tongue. "And how... do you know it is Welsh?" Israfel had known nothing of God's angels. His name's meaning. Perhaps it was simple research taken or a lingering memory?

"Sorry if I come off as blunt by the way, It's... hard to do this and not just go off on tangents. I've got to be all.. Formal and official." Solia's hands was still moving, writing. Each tidbit, right down to each tangent and word could change things. She'd need every inch of detail she could gather.

"Weapons are a mystery as to hunters as they are to themselves at times. Part of why I have begun this project. To solve these mysteries. As for the encounter- Metal to ward from wood." She paused, drawing allusions from old myths of metal and wood and their alchemical properties.
"Curious. Titanium is a composite as you said- Metal to your wood. Something you'd not known until that moment. Fair enough to say you are both.. seekers of enlightenment, of knowledge?"

She smiled, pausing her writing for a moment while she answered his question. "Terrifying. I was afraid of the hunger that surrounded me, the feeling of want, of judgement. Yet then a soothing voice of acceptance. Gentleness I would have likened to standing along the shore of a beach. He was there and so was I- thus, I had found my comfort." Her pen moved again.
"But that was a long time ago now."

Ol-j-man
PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 10:51 pm


"How do I know? Simple!" Owain made a grand gesture towards Jack. "I have always known the word, as innately as I knew my own name. My dear one, in his inexorable need to know everything there is about my kind, came across its origins in several of the library's mythology compilations!" He would have actually gone on to explain what other things Jack had researched in great detail had his hunter not shot him a warning look. Even without sharing minds, Jack knew the giant enough to see the telltale tics.

He was making mental notes of his own as he sipped his coffee, intrigued by Solia's pursuit. There was that flicker in Owain's eyes at the mention of seeking knowledge, for instance, that reminded him of the times his partner had withdrawn to his own musings. "Fair enough."

"Fair enough," Owain echoed, caught by a thought--and then blinking back into the present. "Yes, yes, there was that biting hunger," he agreed, tilting his head so that he could scratch a spot on his back with his antlers. "A logical side-effect of hibernation. But a beach, ahhh~ I do hope it was a more peaceful beach than the one this island has. Do all human beaches contain hidden technology, per chance?" he then had to ask, remembering all of the times Jack had tried combing it in search of fallen runic tech to salvage. What adventures indeed!

iStoleYurVamps

medigel

Anxious Spirit



iStoleYurVamps

iStoleYurVamps


Trash Husband

PostPosted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 10:44 am


Solia's gaze slid between the pair, noting down movements, the gestures, those small changes. Nothing could be overlooked. "Interesting. Knowledge given versus obtained. I'll have to dig a bit further on that at a later date. But, this hunger." The antler scratch was even noted.

"Universal perhaps. I'll confirm it with others if I can. And no, beaches tend to be peaceful and lacking in garbage."

"But it does bring us to another factor- Have you ever encountered something that made you feel strong emotions? Things you knew yet couldn't explain? Perhaps, emotions and flickers of things suppressed? Like a Fog or a screen or wall?" The things Israfel felt when faced with locations of the school he'd once attended and who with.

"Is there anything you feel uneasy about in simply knowing?"

Ol-j-man
PostPosted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 10:27 pm


Owain chortled and the bass noise seemed to reverberate through the walls. "Garbage, she calls it! Garbage! Well if you ever come across it, we would surely enjoy taking it off your hands," he told Solia with a wide grin.

The giant traced the carved markings in his cheek in thought. "Hrrmmm . . . Actually, something of the sort, yes. There was a time when Jack was reconstructing minor runic items--he had taken them apart with a senior hunter supervising, you see, to understand how it worked--and I distinctly remember having the smallest flashback of doing something similar myself. Not with machines, but something more natural." He squinted, trying to reach for the memory. "I remembered . . . The smell of trees, and a voice beside me, encouraging me to mix . . . something. I do not recall the exact words. The vision left me as quickly as a dream, and I have yet to retrieve it again."

Recalling that inability seemed to make him a little disgruntled, Owain shaking his head a little as if to physically shrug it off.

"There are things that call to me, but we do not know why. Trigger words like 'Legacy' that vex my limited memory." He paused, his brows drawing down. "We do not know the cause. Is this normal of all weapons?"

iStoleYurVamps

medigel

Anxious Spirit



iStoleYurVamps

iStoleYurVamps


Trash Husband

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 5:46 pm


Solia shook her head, letting the talk of beach combing die. She had no use for that data.

"That is-" He described a memory. A REAL memory. That in itself was a feat. A variance from what was normal and known to nearly any other documented information. "This dream vision- it has only happened once? Would you have called it vivid? Surreal? Muted?"

Words- Legacy. Solia leaned back, mulling over other possible triggers.

"Yes. Many weapons find emotional responses to image or vocal triggers. Though the levels vary." Legacy.

"Would you care to participate in a small test Owain? Jack?" She invited Jack to sit with them.

Ol-j-man
PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 8:02 pm


"Several times, actually, all surreal and most certainly vague. Muted, as you say. Everything blurred together . . ." Even now as Owain was trying to recall even the event in which he remembered it at all, it was hard to figure out what it was. He rumbled with frustration and was happy to move on with the mention of the test.

Jack, rather than join his partner on the floor, took a final sip of coffee, grabbed his chair, and set it next to the giant. Even when sitting, Owain's head made for a perfect arm rest, though Jack did not take the opportunity. "What do you need us to do?" he asked, a hint of interest in his eyes. The interview was touching on what he had hoped would happen; perhaps further cooperation would uncover more.

iStoleYurVamps

medigel

Anxious Spirit



iStoleYurVamps

iStoleYurVamps


Trash Husband

PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2014 2:08 pm


Solia smiled- her default emotionally fall back as these interviews wore on. It was easy to smile and just ask questions. "I'd like you to embrace each other." She left it at that. Touch was a good indication of comfort, intimacy.

How would they react to be told to touch when faced with one another after a session of moderate distance?

Ol-j-man
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