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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:48 pm
~ASYLUM CITY~
Once upon a time, times away from here, there resided the City Asylum. A place where men lived like gods, years stretching before them endlessly and passing like nothing more than days or even hours. Asylum was a place where all dreamed to one day live, all those of this world prayed for, a place where no one had to fear death, for the end of life never came and the grim reaper no longer haunted and daunted in dreams or within the shadows of dark fears. The City of Asylum was where all resided in timeless tranquility, caring not for earthly cares, for what was there to fear when there was no death?
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It has long been known that science would one day go too far. That one day it would cross the line and overthrow God's will entirely, though there is no longer a God in this world but the men that hold power within the government. There came a day in the earlier years of this world's time that a mousey professor once suggested the idea of it being possible to live forever. He was of course laughed out of the university and those heavily religious and appalled at the very suggestion cast him completely into obscurity. He was cast away like nothing more than Galileo at the suggestion that the eath was not the center of the universe, but like Galileo, the professor had been right.
It is impossible to quell human curiosity and the constant yearn to defy all that religon was; to be what God was himself and grant life for eternity and cheat death himself. It soon came to be known that DNA slowly unravelled as time went on, and the length of DNA determined just how long a person would last on this mortal plane. That was what was destroying the lives of so many, strands of their own DNA, the answer to why our life ended. A scientist of a greater title picked up on what was left of the mousey professor's research and discovered the answer to stop the destruction of DNA. A simple chemical. A chemical that was easily found in the DNA of a creature that was quite common to this world.
The injection for eternal life was all too soon put into the market and with it the troubles started. It was an expensive injection, and of course it would be when so many would pay millions, billions, or even trillions of dollars to never die. Thusly, of course, only those high and power and the wealthy could afford it. Government officials who would have been put out of the system due to old age, never grew older and resided in seats of high power. No other officals could be elected, for the places in charge were always full. The wealthy remained wealthy and kept their money to themselves and gathered so much in their lifetime so that inflation occurred. The world had become a corrupt and hell ridden place, the once democratic government forming into that of a totalitarian.
The people that could not afford the vacination were to live outside of the city limits, a glorious and advanced city stark in the skyline. They remained in what was left of the old cities and were left to a greater poverty that they had never known and strict laws. Overpopulation occurred after a time and population control was put into place. Any of those who opposed the new government were silenced quickly by the secret police before it picked up too much momentum. The new government would not be opposed, and the people of the old cities quickly learned this. The immortals were elite, and the mortals quickly learned their place.
Though, within all evil, there is still good and among those in high power there resides one that opposes the government in secret. There is one with his own set of secret police that slowly but surely is gathering those among his side to stirke down the corrupt govement and grant the world a democratic and fair system once again.
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Within Asylum, a number of secret and underground organizations run everything that happens. The Government's secret police silenced any unwanted voices, while a number of anti-govenment groups raged a secret war against those who ruled them.
But another group was slowly being formed. The one voice of reason that was seated in the horrid establishment was creating his own form of resistance. A small group of people, yes, but he knew they would be able to overthrow the Hell in which they'd be living. They were people from both within Asylum's walls, and beyond them. Secret letters of despiration and planning were sent out to these people in the hopes that they'd respond. He didn't know what else to do... This really was the people's last hope.
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:19 pm
Alrighty, so... You guys are all the people who get these notes and are contacted by our good guy in the government. You can respond how you will... And can be either immortal or not.
A few things on the 'immortality' thing... Think of it as elves... They simply won't die of old age. Sickness and injury can kill them (in fact, suicide rates are rather high nowadays), but not the workings of time. So yeah... Keep that in mind, eh?
Now, we need profiles! So just post 'em, and either Aka or I will put 'em down here... Or, you could PM them... Yeah that makes things neater. PM' em, kay? And here's the profile guiiiide!
Name: Age: (okay, not in years necessarily, but what age their body is, if they're immortal) Gender: Immortal: (yes or no) Position: (everyone works on some level for the government... What do they do?) Appearance: Personality: History: Extras:
Okay, that's what we need... Lemme know if I forgot anything... Alsooooo, I'm not gonna bother with rules, 'cause doods, we all know how to RP. At least, I hope so. >.<. Anyway, HAVE AT IT, KIDDOS!
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Alandra_Noir Vice Captain
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Alandra_Noir Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:06 pm
*~Profiles~*
Aka
Name: Angelo Deimos
Age: mid to late twenties.
Gender: Male
Immortal: No
Position: He's a chairman in one of the lower houses of the system. One of the FEW mortals allowed within the governement's walls to keep some peace among the people. Though, it's only because he's filthy rich.
Appearance: Angelo is a fair, delicate, and elegant man. He's of a long tallish form with slender limbs that give him a fluid sort of appearance when he walks. He almost tends to glide when he strides about. His torso is long but thin and just everything about him is quite effeminate. His face is lean and angled, with a long nose, and large eyes that are thickly lashed with dark eyelashes. To be even more confusing about his rather girlish appearance, he has rather long hair that flows to about mid-back in a perfectly straight sheet of inky black. Though, strands of his dark hair are always hanging in his face for his hair is layered quite professionally. His skin is quite a pale shade to add to his fair look, though his eyes contrast starkly being that they are a intense brown, almost black and thusly are hard to read. All in all, he's one of those really beautiful men.. because Aka hasn't done a pretty boy in a LONG while.
Also, to what he wears. He tends to wear formal, professional looking clothing. Meaning: Dress slacks, shoes, shirt, and tie. The whole shi-bang. Though, he refuses to wear a suit jacket. It just about drives him out of his mind because his shoulders are not broad enough to fit in any of the normal sizes and it's too danged expensive to get one tailored to fit him (he's cheap apparently). Also, he's one of those guys that tend to wear the more flashy suits... because he actually makes them look good. So, he likes to wear like those silver and gold suits, or royal purple or red with crazy coloured shirts and ties to match. It's quite funny.
Lastly! He has a thing for silver and gold rings and each one of his fingers has one on it.
Personality: Angelo is quite an interesting character. Despite his rather girlish appearence, he is anything but homosexual. In fact, he is quite fond of women and flirts with just about anything that moves. He even flirts with guys sometimes just to freak them out, because he is rather flamboyant, and he knows it too. He's a rather charming fellow who sometimes overdoes the dramatics, but he means it only in good fun and you can't help but laugh at the guy. He is very good at knowing JUST what to say, and this has helped him out in more ways than one.
He's the kind of fellow that just about everyone knows and is on a friendly basis with, though there are those who simply do not trust the guy, and it's understandable (I'll get more into him with his history). He seems too nice and too humble, he's always agreeable and if he doesn't agree with things, he never shows it. It's almost like he's planning something. In a way, Angelo is, but only to get a sort of sway in the government. He is quite clever and cunning and keeps his head low enough, yet high enough not to be suspicious, and sometimes he'll even whisper ideas to other colleagues and make it out like it had been their idea all along. Either way, he let's his opinion be heard. He's smart enough to know that too much voice out of one fellow will definitely get him killed.
History: Angelo Diemos comes from a very wealthy family and is actually quite unusual being that he was born after the injection was created. Sometime after his mother and father paid for their immortal juice he was born... and it was mostly an accident. Apparently birth control hasn't become more advanced with time. The last thing they wanted was a son because they wanted the money they had to themselves, but they got their son anyway and sent him to school as soon as he was able to walk just to keep him out of the way. They figured he'd be the heir of their estate one day if sickness, cancer, or what have you ever got to them. Good to have a plan B, they supposed.
Now, Angelo had no problem with this and took to school avidly. He learned quickly and efficeintly and took a quick liking to government and law studies. This is where he came about joining up with the government, working his way into the system at first as only a lowly assistant... though eventually he made a name for himself and worked into the seat he has now.
Extras: ... Angelo has a DAAAANGEROUS temper.
Ala
Name: Drake Kin
Age: Late twenties....ish.
Gender: Male
Immortal: Yes
Position: Drake is a member of the government's secret police... But shhh, no one knows that. His coverup job is a board member of some high-up company... No one really knows what it does, save the men and women running it.
Appearance: Let's see... Drake is the sort of guy that looks like he used to be pretty lanky, but has rather recently bulked up, in a short amount of time. He's not quite football player-sized, and is actually a bit on the short side. He probably weighs ehh, 200 pounds (pretty tight muscles, yo) and isn't like, BULKY, but he's very sturdy looking, but not to the point where it looks like it's kinda hard to move fully. Mer, you get what I mean. Anyway, he's got a pair of shocking blue eyes that match his dirty-blonde hair. His hair is cut in a way that's not exactly SHORT, but couldn't be put back into a ponytail. He tends to give a swept-back look, though some of it ends up flipping forward into his face. He's quite proud of that look (he's worked on it for years). He also sports a goatee on his chin (no moustach part to it) that's the color of his hair roots (a more brown than blonde). Sometimes he has some stubble (doesn't feel like shaving every day), but doesn't much mind. He's fairly tan, which makes his bright white smile particularly dashing. Um, his face is kinda angular, and not exactly CHISELED, but he's not like, ugly... He actually looks kinda snooty in the way that says "I'm too good looking for YOU." Though is eyes say something more like "I'm bitter at the WORLD... Will you be my friend if you can STAND me?"
Um, he's got an ear pierced (simple silver hoop), and a tattoo along his left hand that kinda snakes around his wrist. It's a sorta dragony type looking thing. He also wears a simple silver chain 'round his neck, no charm. He usually carries a sheathe-knife on his belt too.
Okay! For clothings, he LIKES to wear a jean vest with little frays on where sleeves might have been, and a white shirt, with some jeans and converse shoes. He also tends to wear black fingerless gloves (haha, 90's much? ^^;;; I BLAME MY MUSIC!). Um, a chain on his pants...
But he doesn't ALWAYS get to wear this, 'cause he works for the government... Though he's been able to keep his comfy clothes for most of his work... Though, in the official meetings and stuff, he's always had to wear a suit (which he HATES) but it can't be helped.
Personality: Drake is a sorta sullen sort of guy... Grumpyish, though not above getting a few good laughs out of people. If he's 'round the right people, he's actually quite fun, but in general, he's sorta jaded. He'd rather smirk than smile, and gives people more skeptical looks than anything. Basically, he's got a 'screw the world' attitude. A lot of his comments are particularily cyinical, though you'll NEVER hear him utter a bad word about the government... Though, you'll never hear him say anything good about it either.
In any case, he'd rather connect his fist with your face before trying to talk something out, but if you get him going, he's actually QUITE intelligent... Almost as if he was a dork in a previous life... But then again, he's lived a long time.
He's not too quick to make friends (he has trust issues) and tends to be sorta flaky with the ones he has (very rarely does he find someone he'd be a loyal friend to... The times are just too tough). Uhh, he's pretty frivolous with money, since he has so much of it (he got the shot, didn't he? SO yeah, he's loaded) though he never carries money, 'cause, yeah, he doesn't feel like fighting off robbers.
Umm, he always seems to be in some sort of temper thing, but that's just how he is... When he REALLY loses his temper, he gets real quiet and scary, quite unlike his normally fiery self. And he has a soft spot for orphaned animals... Why? No clue, but the Drake in my head told me to put it.
History: Drake was one of the first guys to get the injection... And when he did, he looked the exact picture of bookworm. Haha, yeah, it was bad. Anyway, he got into the development area of the government (back when it was a decent working society) but was more or less framed, and he was sent to prison for a while... Which is where he bulked up a bit and lost his pretty happy-go-lucky attitude. The only reason he was let out of his sentence was that the government came to him and asked for him to be on their secret police force... He'd have to kill people, but eh, better than an eternity in prison, no? Plus, he'd picked up on a lot of rather nasty things in that place.
So, he accepted and has been doing that for quite a while, though never realyl LIKED it... BUt hey, it kept him away from the group that was most likely to get him. Keep friends close, but enemies closer, right? Right. Anyway, so he's a little morally lacking in some areas, but that's what happen when Hell comes on earth.
Extras: Uhh, he HAS actually killed quite a few people, and is a good shot, but is even better with that knife he carries... And is somehow able to put on a frightening, though non-threatening air when needs be. SHWA!
Raina
Name: Illuna Frezby (goes by Luna)
Age: Seems to be about 11 Gender: Female
Immortal: Yes
Position: Daughter to the Head Official of the middle chairs of outter city affairs. He's put Luna in charge of Mortal and Immortal Child Interactions (XD)
Appearance: A small, pale, and thin child, Luna fits her nickname almost perfectly. Waist length locks of silvery hair fall evenly around her face, the longer of the locks pulled into a partial pony-tail, partway down the length of her hair. Her bright blue eyes are large, standing out immensly against pale skin and silver hair. Her face is slightly rounded, holding the look of the 11 year-old child that she is forever stuck as. Short, standing at only around 4'3", she's thin her proportions matching her age perfectly. This being so, the young girl has no bust, and no butt to speak of. She's 11! No one should be looking anyway! Thick lashes bring out the blue color of her eyes even more, and also give her, a sort of innocent look. She's often regarded as adorable and cute, her childish looks giving her admiring awes every which way.
Being that she is a representative that takes care of matters dealing with mortal, and immortal children, she must always dress in something... Nice. Typically, she'll be seen wandering around in a black dress that clings tightly to her child-ish form. It's long sleeved, hanging off her shoulders, the sleeves belling out toward the end, where crimson lace dones the edges. The bottom rests at about her knee, the same kind of design that is done with the sleeves, done there. The dress becoming more loose after the waist with the crimson lace. When she isn't taking care of 'Government' matters, she'll wander around in loose black jeans and a white tanktop.
Personality: Luna, being that she looks like a child, acts childish as well. Technically, she's around the age of 24, but when no one treats you that age, you tend to not mature. Almost everyone in the business complex has fallen for the sweet and innocent facade that little Luna has set up. Sure, she can be kind hearted, thoughtful, and innocent, but, she holds a bit of... Well I guess it could be called teen spirit. She likes to play tricks, including, crying over something small to make people feel horrible, and giving rather adorable puppy dog faces to get her way. Anyone who knows her well, knows that she isn't the nice girl she acts like.
Overall, she's a toned down prankster... But there are her moments when she really will act the age she is supposed to be. Times like those, however, are rather rare, and rather brief. They only come around when things get extremely serious, or... She just feels like it. Being stuck at the age of 11, Luna harbors many animosities and depressions that she refuses to show. After all, how would you like to be a child, brushed off no matter how old you really were. It would be damn frustrating.
History: Luna is the youngest child of a rather... strange family. Her mother, is an immortal, at the age of 23, her father, is an immortal at the age of 28. Her older sister is 18 and an immortal, and her younger brother 14 and an immortal. (She finds it rather irritating that they allowed her younger brother to age passed her) Her parents, finding it troubling to let go of their children, and refusing to let them grow any older, administered the shots when they felt they couldn't stand to see their child any older.
Poor Luna, was given the shot at the age of 11, her parents loving the, 'adorable' face she possessed. If anyone is against the thought of immortality, and the way that the people are going about the government, it is Luna. She is an avid hater (though she hides it well) of their society.
Extras: She has a couple scars long ways up her arms, where she's tried to 'escape' her age. She has long since gotten over the thoughts however, you can't do anything if you're dead.
J
Name: Agatha Donatell (She hates her name, so call her Aggie.)
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Immortal: No
Position: She has no specific job, but is hired periodically for jobs that involve more cruel type of actions. And she doesn’t really work for the government; other rich spoiled snobs hire her.
Appearance: Aggie is the type of woman that doesn’t care about her appearance, but still looks beautiful even when she just woke up, put on clothes and walked out the door. Her beauty is natural, and she never puts on makeup, unless she actually lets her sister play dress up on her, but that’s the only time.
Her body is full, not thin, but not fat either. She is one of those thick boned women, that are very curvy and almost goddess looking. She stands at a slightly short 5’2” and her figure is perfect, even though it isn’t model thin. You guys know what I am talking about right? If you don’t…you suck! ANYWAYS! She has smooth light brown skin, another natural thing; she doesn’t have to tan like a lot of people do. In fact, she hardly goes out into the sun much.
Aggie’s face is rounded and soft, with perfect cheekbones, and a bit of a large nose, though it’s not a HONKER but it’s still round and larger than normal. She also has full lips that tend to be a bit chapped almost nonstop, she doesn’t bother putting anything on them, and the running she does always nips them. Her eyes are a very pretty shade of green, with what looks to be a purple circle edging the iris and pupil. Aggie’s hair is cut short, think punk. She tends to spike it, or just leave it wavy. It’s naturally black, but she dyes the ends green, yellow, and orange…for who knows why. It’s also pretty thick, and many people admire her for it, though she HATES it to no end.
Her wardrobe is pretty drab. She doesn’t bother keeping up to date on the latest fashion or anything, even though she has the decent amount of cash to do so. She either wears t-shirts and jeans, or shorts and tank-tops. Her feet always are in a pair of sneakers or very old looking flip-flops. Either way, she isn’t exactly the most fashionable dressers, but has no care for any of it anyways.
Personality: Aggie on many first impressions is very pessimistic. She always looks you straight in the eye, like a wolf and will never be the one to let go of the gaze. Her intimidating nature is very extreme; she glares, pouts, snarls, and even has the body language to go with it. Not to mention she HATES immortals, with a passion. She’ll do anything to avoid them, and when she comes in contact with one, she’s extremely cold and disobedient, unless they have hired her.
Once you get to know the woman, she is pretty outgoing and humorous. With her friends she’s very laid back and can make anyone laugh and anything. If one of her friends is down she can make them laugh no matter how depressing the situation. She also really enjoys laughing herself. Laughing is the medicine to laugh, in her theory anyways. Without laughter what is there to live for?
And since I want to be able to play with her personality throughout the thing…that’s what I shall leave it at.
History: There isn’t much to Aggie’s history. She grew up in a steady household, not rich, but not too poor…And that’s pretty much it.
After her parents died from the government she promised to avenge them, and thereby takes her job as some what of an assassin, which trained her for the day she could tear the government to shreds
She also has two siblings, all 6 to 10 years younger than her. Her sister is 13 and her brother is 17. She lives with both of them, and they are really good friends, with the occasional fight of course…
Extras: Aggie likes sweet stuff?
Deluded
Name: Jacob Griffiths
Age: looks about 17-18
Gender: Male
Immortal: yes
Position: Former policeman for the city of Asylum.
Appearance: Jacob's got that grunge look going on for him. He has crazy wild orange hair, and it usually just flops into his eyes. He tends to end up with a lot of hairs in his mouth because of that. But sometimes, when it's cold outside, he stuffs it into a home-knit beanie. His face is really dirty, so you can hardly tell what color his actual skin is, but once he wipes all the crud off, he has pale pale pale skin, along with a bunch of freckles covering his body. Jake's pretty tall and skinny, with long, slim legs and a torso that can fit behind a lamppost. His face is kind of long and angular, and when he smiles, it looks like his face is being stretched. His eyes are a natural blue-gray, framed by a couple dozen blond lashes. Even his eyebrows are golden! But anyway, there's usually dirt stuck between the hairs, so you can hardly tell.
As said before, Jacob does the grungy, hobo look perfectly, considering he kind of is a grungy hobo... But, anyway, he wears a grimy looking sweatshirt, a red bandana around his neck, faded jeans with holes in them, and old converse shoes. You can't even tell what color they are- or were. He sometimes switches outfits, when the old gets too, well, old, but this one is his current.
Personality: This is where it starts getting interesting. See, Jakey has a little condition some people call a split personality. His alter ego(whose name is supposedly Eric) is an egotistic maniac bent on taking over the world. He's very calculating, determined, and only comes out if Jacob hasn't eaten anything for over twelve hours. Eric likes to talk about the end of the world, gamble, and drink large amounts of iced tea, for reasons no one understands. He is also rather happy-go-lucky, always optimistic no matter what.
Jacob, on the other hand, has a different personality. He smokes like a fish, and is probably one of the world's most distrusting people in the world. He hates people, immortal or otherwise, because he blames them for, well, everything. And that's one of the reasons why Eric is so much cooler than Jake.
History: He was born into a great family, but they weren't rich. His little sister was born with an unnamed medical disease, and all of their money was put into her treatment. While Jacob's family wasn't wealthy, his uncle suddenly became rich after a plot of land he had invested in a long time ago was made into a highway. His uncle offered to pay for the treatment, but his mom and dad declined, since they were too proud to accept the money, even from family. And they could get by just fine, they thought. So Jacob's uncle didn't do anything about it. But then, he became sick and died, and all his money was passed on to his favorite nephew. Can you guess who it was? Jake recieved all the money and was prepared to pay for his sister's treatment when she up and died in the hospital one night. Without anything else to do with the money, he went and got the injection, after his mother and father encouraged him to. Said they didn't want their only son to die before they did.
Unfortunately, he had to go live away from them, in Asylum, and he rarely got to see any of his family. When he officially turned 20, he turned into a policeman, just so he could see them. He saw them a couple of times, but they didn't seem to recognize them, and he gave up on it. Jacob became a great cop, but after one particular accident that involved a little girl being shot by her schizophrenic mother, Eric manifested himself in his mind. Things went downhill after that, and Jake dropped out of the police corps. People say that he went crazy because eventually, immortality causes everyone to lose their minds. Even though he's not technically crazy. He just has an insane alter ego. Don't worry, I don't even think that made sense.
Extras: Jake and Eric talk to themselves at random times of the day. And sometimes to each other.
Kiki
Name: Sienna Silvan
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Immortal: No (but keep that on the DL, will ya?)
Position: Head of the Dept. of Mortal Affairs
Appearance: Sienna is nothing short of serpentine. Her eyes are large and slanted--a striking, pale silver-green. She has a long, slender form and piles of dark brown hair which is always kept very, very straight. Despite the fact that proportionately she's got very long limbs and that, she's not all that tall. Maybe 5'7", if she straightens up.
Sienna is the kind of girl whose eyelashes are always perfectly curled. She looks like she doesn't need to wear a lot of makeup to be pretty, but she does anyway, and she wears it well. Her nails are always painted, usually bright red. Sienna dresses conservatively in expensive suits and the like for work, but in her more casual state, she's usually showing a lot of skin. It's just her way. She has a little black spade (you know, like the suit of cards?) tattooed on her left hip bone, in the front.
Personality: Despite the fact that she's a very calm and generally friendly girl, Sienna definitely has a side to match her looks. For the most part she's fairly warm and charismatic, and it takes a lot to drive her over the edge. She can be a bit of a snake, when things aren't going her way, but you almost never actually see that part of her personality until you realize that you've been had.
Sienna is one of those people who you'll think you're very close to, in that she's very trustworthy with information and will usually try to help friends and allies out as best she can, and will have all of these deep conversations and ask thousands of questions and want to know everything about you...and then just never share anything of herself.
She takes jokes well, and has a good sense of humor. Although she looks sort of intimidating at the beginning she's really very easy to get along with for the most part. Smarter than she first appears.
History: How in the world did a mortal get to be the head of the Dept. of Mortal Affairs? Seriously, how stupid is that? Can you say "bias" much? Well, you see, Sienna wasn't so forthcoming with the whole "mortal" thing on her resumé, you might say. In fact, one might go so far as to say she "lied" to the government and "pretended" to get the injection when she in fact "killed" the nurse and "forged" papers about all sorts of things. But those are dirty words and no one likes to use them. Sienna likes to see herself as a hard working, opportunistic girl who has earned everything she has! She doesn't like to go into life before her glamorous lifestyle, but it doesn't come off like she's had it particularly hard. Or, you know, maybe she has. Maybe she's just very unaffected. Who knows!
Extras: Sienna is, underneath her outer exterior, a very cynical and calculating girl. A product of her environment, one could infer. She knows the world must be changed and believes that she can help do it, and a little blood on her hands on the way to attaining her goals has never bothered her.
Psychotic
Name: Coraline Morit
Age: She looks about fourteen
Gender: Female
Immortal: Yes
Position: Ambassador between families and government
Appearance: Eh, she looks older than fourteen which used to annoy her, but now she’s fine. She’s around normal age and looks fairly sturdy, not being large or anything, but not small either. Her limbs are well muscled from several years of working out weekly and thus she has a fairly good shape, even if she is fairly up and down rather than hourglass. Hey, she’s fourteen though, what do you expect?
Her face is undoubtedly the part that everyone catches first since that’s the way everyone is, but the way to put her features would be to say they’re prominent. None of her features are delicate looking since all of them stand out boldly, but not in a bad way. Her lips are a little thin and her eyebrows are dark but not thick and her lashes bring her blue eyes forward as well the curve of her nose. She feels lucky that the age she looks is a little too young to have to wear make up. Her hair is a dark auburn color and falls to the middle of her back as she’s just too darn lazy to haul her butt over to a hair dresser or barber and get it cut.
As for what she wears, she’s got the casual and lazy teen look going pretty well. She wears baggy shirts most of the time and jeans or capris as well as sandals or sneakers and keeps her hair tied up or just down, rarely ever dressing up unless she has something important to go to. Such as meetings…this means that she’s stuck wearing a knee length, denim blue or black skirt, white or black blouse and a dark colored jacket as well as nice shoes.
Personality: She’s an intense person, no matter what happens. If she decides she doesn’t like you, she’ll hate you until she can be swayed otherwise or until she gets bored and if she likes you, she’ll be your bestest friend. Just because she can and because it’s fun.
She’s somewhat rebellious and will do almost anything to do the opposite of what she’s told if she doesn’t like it. She also hates being looked down upon and while she’s good at keeping feelings locked up, will certainly let one know if she doesn’t. She argues, talks back, and just plain causes trouble when she feels it’s time to vent or when she feels ignored.
However, she’s a nice enough person, even if she does have her faults…yeah. She likes having a good time and like her look, is somewhat lazy when she has the time to be. Other than that, she does everything full force.
History: Eh…her family’s fairly rich so they kind of forced her to get the injection. By forced, this means that they dragged her out of bed, kicking and screaming and had to hold her down so she didn’t scratch or bite anybody while it was being injected. She was very bitter towards her family after that and didn’t talk to them for a few months, and barely ate for a few weeks until her aunt knocked some sense into her. Quite literally, when asked she’ll probably try to show you the bruise to prove it. Anyways, she’s been like that for a few years now and she’s probably about twenty seven although she never keeps track of it, only scratching a mark on the wall when it’s her birthday and then never looking at it again.
The rest of her family had also gotten injections although they were pretty darn willing and she was made as an ambassador between families and the government, aka sending messages from the government to individual families of what they are expected to do and stuff…she tends to pick up on a lot of gossip like that.
On the other hand, she was sent to a pretty good school, passed through college but still looks like a bloody fourteen your old and she started exercising regularly when she was sixteen. Figured that the lack of it might be why she kept getting so darned tired when walking to someone’s house halfway across the city.
Extra: …She hates stairs. Don’t ask why but unless she’s sliding down the banister, she despises stairs. She also likes alcohol although it’s not too bad. Tis really strange, seeing what looks like a fourteen year old arguing with someone that she’s old enough to drink.
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:40 pm
((eiii it's a sexy idea! I LUFF YOU GUYS! *tackles* I shall type up a profile... yes yes?))
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Alandra_Noir Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:02 am
Buhahahaha... Okay, so this thing should be startin' PRETTY soonly here... But I think that since this is a guild, let's try to avoid OOC in this specific thread, and instead discuss stuff in the chat thread, ne? I mean, if you're posting, you can OOC, but if it's just for random things, that's what the chat thread is for, ne ne?
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Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:01 pm
((HAha, ALRIGHT! I'm squeaky clean, eatin' some Pops, and gettin' ready to start this thing. WOOHOO! *re-reads things and gets down to it, yo!*))
"If you utter one more word, Wimbleton, you WON'T be in that seat come tomorrow morning." A particularly round man growled, his bushy eyebrows meeting in the middle of his head as he scowled. The cane he always carried was now being waved about furiously, mostly in the direction of a much smaller man who went by the name John Wimbleton.
John slunk back in his seat and gave a nod, accompanied with a heavy sigh. Every time h tried to right some wrong, he was forced into silence by the rest of the House. He was quite sure that if things were to continue the way they were going, he wouldn't last much longer in this world... Despite the fact he was indeed immortal. This had to stop... Did they not see what horrors those in the city were living through? Did they not see what those OUTSIDE Asylum had to experience every day? Members of their families disappearing without notice, never to be seen again, famine and ill-kept sanitation overlooked because they have no money...
And not a single outspoken voice against these things had been heard in over half a century. The government had complete control, and it was time they were thrown from their seats of absolute power.
Wimbleton sat placidly through the rest of the meeting, nodding here or there, and every once in a while leaping up to try to get the others there to see what they were doing to the world. But his heart wasn't in it... No, his mind and soul were back at his lavish mansion, planning a final, last stroke of desperation and hope for the world. Everyone knew the government had their own secret police... It was time the people had a way to fight back as well.
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Back in his home, night had fallen across the lavish, futuristic city, and John sat in the study, pouring over a number of books and computer files, searching, searching, searching for those that could help. Through the night he looked, took notes, and contacted the few friends he had. Finally, a meager list of seven people had been compiled. It was a short list, and John's heart fell at the lack of fruits to his intense labors. However, it was something, and the man was determined to help, no matter how small that effort seemed.
Carefully folding this list, he slid it into his pocket and cleared his desk. He then took seven pieces of paper (a very old fashioned way to communicate, but one that was hardly detectable) and wrote a short, but intense letter, copying it to each of the six other sheets. Carefully labeling them with each person's name, he sealed them in envelopes and along with the list, took them upstairs to his bed.
Hiding them under his pillow and locking the door, John fell into a far more restful sleep than he'd had in years, the knowledge that something was being done laying his troubled mind to rest.
The dawn's first light woke him, and in moments, the man was dressed and prepared to go out for the day. He had the letters securely in his overcoat and made his way through his home and out into the glorious city. One by one, the letters were delivered to the homes of those people he so hoped and prayed to the God that hardly anyone believed in anymore that they would help, and the letters would not fall into the wrong hands. As sunset broke the blue of the sky, he slowly returned to his home, waiting for contact from any of those he sent his word to. Time now, was the only factor. And time was something John had.
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It was early afternoon when Drake finally woke up. He'd had a long, loooong night, and wasn't rightly in the mood to try and remember what it was that he'd done. He knew it was probably gruesome and against the 'law,' and that really was all he wanted to think on the subject. So, the man slowly rolled out of bed and stretched, running a hand through his hair to rid it of the bed-head look, and stumbled to the bathroom for the usual morning routine.
A quick check on the computer told he had about a hundred or so e-mails he would never read, and after a short breakfast, decided on a walk. He didn't have to go into the normal business building for his job, and as of now, didn't have any calls for the... darker end of what he did. So, he figured maybe a walk through the park would calm his twitchy nerves and maybe help him forget all the CRAP that went on all the time. Life really sucked sometimes, and for him, an immortal, life was still yet a long way to go.
As he left the house, he was quite surprised to see a letter... A real LETTER shoved in the crack between his screen door and its frame. Shrugging, the man threw it on a table beside the door and left. For most of the day he was gone, but when he returned home, he was in much higher spirits. Nothing had gone wrong, he hadn't gotten any calls, and life, for once, was seeming quite good.
It was only after a quite hearty dinner did the blonde man remember that letter, and open it. A laugh escaped him upon reading its contents. "What a joke..." He murmured, and moved to toss it into the trash can, but something stopped him. This was from one of the high powers of the House... And he knew that handwritten letters and delivery of those had stopped ages ago... It had been banned, because the government couldn't trace them... And the gravity with which the letter had been written seemed real enough...
"Aw hell... I have nothing better to do." So, with a shrug, Drake grabbed a set of keys, tugged a bit on his goatee out of habit, and gave a nod. He then hopped onto his hover vehicle and revved the engine, taking off toward the house mentioned. The letter insisted they meet this evening if possible, in John's home. And since Drake really had nothing better to do, why not? If it really WAS true that they'd be taking the government down... Well, now THAT was something to live for.
So, a few minutes later, the man had his car parked around the side of Mr. Wimbleton's mansion, and was knocking on a great oak door. He was greeted by a slightly aged looking man with greying hair and a hopeful look in his eyes. "Hey, I'm Drake... You sent me a letter?" He raised an eyebrow at the light that sparked to life in the man's eyes.
"Yes, yes, come in! None of the others have arrived yet, but I hope they do... I'm John Wimbleton," He quickly shook Drake's hand and chattering away about something Drake couldn't quite place, led him into a very large sitting room, where a small buffet was waiting. "Just make yourself at home until more of you arrive. And then we can discuss further the reason for my calling you here." And with that, the man left Drake alone and particularly confused.
((Haha, THAR! IT HAS STARTED! YAY! Sorry for how crappy it got by the end... But yes... GO GO GO!))
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Alandra_Noir Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:13 pm
((YAY BEING CLEAN...I gotta do that of the cleaning sorts after this...AGGIE aggie was her name.
Sorry...typing to myself...
And I'll check for typos and what not later...when I am not tired...if I messed anything up, let me know!))
Even with the sleep medicine, the thing the bottle had guaranteed had not come easily for the woman who was sprawled out on a bed that she had bought with the wad of cash a rich immortal man had given her for assassinating a competitor of his in the business he ran. Along with the bed many other furniture pieces were placed neatly about from other cash and checks from other dirty work, though these seemingly expensive things were cluttered with trash, weapons, or clothes...messy clothes.
Down the hall came stomping, chuckling, and cries of annoyance. The door to the woman's room busted open as two teenage siblings were jumping about, the older boy, about 19 was grinning wickedly, a letter in his hands, holding it high about the younger girls, 15, jumping distance. They both were dark skinned, both with slight afros, though the girl's was poofier and looked groomed with more care than the boy's.
"COME ON PAUL! LEMME SEEEEEEEE." The girl jumped and toppled into him, pushing him onto the ground as he yowled with laughter and pushed her off harshly. "PAUL COME ON! JUST LET ME LOOK! AGG NEVER GETS MAIL!"
The woman on the bed was still, only her back rising with each deep sleep induced breath.
"Haha, you're kidding right?! You understand how special this letter is?" The one named Paul held it in front of the girl's face before snatching it back and skillfully maneuvering himself around her reach. "It's from the Government! I bet they saw one of Agg's jobs, and they are giving her the death sentence."
The woman was still.
"NU-UH! Agg never gets caught! She's like a ninja! A PRETTY BEAUTIFUL GRACEFUL NINJA OF THE NIIIIIGHT!" At this the girl twirled a bit and grinned cunningly at Paul who was looking at her like she was insane.
"What else would it be Angie? Agg's leaving us forever, and now I'll have to take care of you, and you'll be cleaning the house like...those really old movies with the step-mothers you know? Though I'll be an evil brother instead of an evil step-mother."
Angie looked at him with intense worry and with this jumped onto the bed which the woman slept on.
Still statuesque.
"AGATHA! ARE YOU GETTING ARESTED?"
Nothing.
"AG. UH. THUUUUUUH!" Angie pulled at Agatha's curly hair.
Nothing.
"You've gotta tickle her Angie. You know that. Seriously, are all girls this dumb?" Paul had now moved himself to Agatha's dresser and was looking at the arrangement of weapons with great curiosity.
"Are all boys this immature? You're nineteeeeen." Angie then shoved her hands under the covers and squeezed Agatha's sides, causing the woman to let out a screech of terror, and fall onto her back, green and purple eyes wide with surprise.
"You gotta letter." Paul waved the paper in the air, still looking at the weapons.
"A...what?" Agatha's sleepy voice grumbled as she yanked Angie down and buried her with the blankets.
"Letter."
"...A letter?"
"God damn it, just get up and look."
Agatha said nothing and got up, leaving Angie crying and complaining underneath the covers. "I never get letters."
"Yeah." Paul gave her the letter.
As Aggie opened the letter, she smacked Paul's hands and kicked him away from her dresser, all the while beginning to read the contents of the handwritten note.
"...A job or something...looks important."
Paul blinked and rubbed his butt, looking at the letter in his older sister's hands. Though she was older, Paul was at least a foot taller, taking his father's traits, along with Angie who had worked herself out of the sheets and read the note over Agatha's shoulder, also taller than her older sister.
"You should go Agg."
"I guess...but you two clean my room, without cutting anyone's d**k off."
"EWWWW AGGIE!" Angie cringed as Paul grinned wildly and threw more covers at Angie.
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Angie had walked her way all the way over to the address, with Angie and Paul in tow. Angie had insisted to walk her sister since Paul had given her the fright that Agatha was going to be arrested or given the death penalty. Agatha though had told Paul because of what he said, was going to have to escort his younger sister to the mall or what was left the mall. She trusted him enough to do these things; they were all she had left to trust. Everyone else was a disgusting nasty immortal, or a corrupted mortal.
She got to the mansion and raised a brow to her younger siblings. "Go on now. Meet me back at the house. I'm not sure when I'll be home. Make dinner, whatever...don't wait up. And for gods sakes don't do anything stupid."
"Paaaauuuul." Angie said accusingly and began walking off happily; feeling the money her sister had given her in the pockets of her mini skirt. Paul grumbled but trudged after the overly giddy Angie, this sibling not so happy.
Finally she had reached the house and knocked at the door, instantly going into her cold, defensive mode, eerie eyes blank, and a scowl on her face. Even her clothes were intimidating, well worn and baggy, easily holding any weapons imaginable. Even with her short size, she was extremely threatening.
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Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:28 pm
Sienna stretched languidly on her king-sized bed, enjoying the early morning glow that crept through the huge bay windows in her room. She wasn't fully aware yet, with her mind perched precariously between consciousness and the realm of sleep. Her night had, as every other night since as far back as she can remember, been filled with nightmares. Not that she really minded so much. They were exciting, adventurous--much better than the monotony of real life.
Well, monotony was perhaps a relative term, considering "real life" for Sienna included pretending to be immortal to retain her position within the equally powerful and corrupt government...and there was that one time, when she killed a man. Was it just one time? Hmm.
As the sun broke over the horizon, the brunette finally awoke fully. She yawned and rolled around childishly to loosen up her joints before draping her long legs over the edge of the bed and hauling herself to her feet. It wasn't long after she was standing that a maid rushed in, closely followed by a butler.
"I've already planned an outfit for today, Marie," Sienna informed her maid. "It's been laid out in the closet, if you'd fetch it for me."
The stout, older woman nodded and promptly did as she was told.
Now left with the butler--who usually didn't come in in the mornings (and by "usually didn't" I mean "never did")--Sienna calmly asked, "Alfred, why are you here?"
"My name is not Alfred, ma'am--" as he'd politely and patiently informed her every single time she'd addressed him since he'd been hired, "--it's Benjamin, and I'm here because you've received, well...I wasn't sure you'd want me to even bring it into the house, since it's technically contraban, but..."
"Do get to the point, Alfred," she said with a smile, before turning around to gaze out of the window at the rising sun.
"My name is not Alfred, ma'am, it's Benjamin. And you've received a letter. A real one. On paper. Written with a pen. Delivered in person, obviously, since it was somehow rolled into the door knocker."
Sienna's eyes snapped back to Alfred--er, Benjamin--at the word "letter", and remained locked onto him intensely until he finished speaking.
"I'd like to see it, please."
The distinguished-looking man produced a slightly crumpled letter (probably damaged from its encounter with the door knocker), and handed it over to Sienna.
Her slender fingers ran along the surface of the envelope, and without much adieu, she snaked a finger under its lip and opened it. Her well-groomed brows drew together as she read and re-read the letter several times. She comitted it to memory, and then tore it up into several pieces.
"I want this burned, Alfred. Do you have a lighter?"
"My name's not Alfred, ma'am, it's Benjamin. Yes, I have a lighter. Give the letter to me and I will dispose of it in the fire pit."
"Hand me the lighter."
He did as he was told, and Sienna quickly went to task, setting every strip of paper she'd torn alight, and then dropping them to the cool marble floor before the flame reached her fingers. When she was done, the letter was nothing more than a pile of ash.
"Perfect," she said. "Now...what's taking Marie so terribly long? I know the closet's big, but..."
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Hours later, Sienna strode up the front walk of John Wimbleton's mansion. She'd worn flats, that, while stylish, would allow her more freedom of movement than heels if it turned out to be a setup or some other form of trickery.
She rapped at the door three times, and then waited for a response.
((Danana! First post! So long! WHOOWHEE! I thought about arriving at the same time as J and running into her but I thought we ought to maybe all get in the house and on our way as soon as possible so we don't stall the RP somehow...with...pre-plot things. Hahahah. So.))
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 7:36 am
((Hahaha, awesoome... this is a first time in a long time I didn't have to start an Collad... this is so shiny happy! I FEEL SO FREEEE! OOOMG!!!!... I had better post though, shouldn't I? Afore I hafta go to work all day XP))
The night had grown old in the old estate where the family Diemos had resided for centuries, a very well to do family that was always thought well of in the city of Assylum. A very good upbrining, lots of money, and what little of the line left was immortals, except for that b*****d son of theirs, but he had no power and instead of killing him like they should have, he remained in the government systems as a sort of joke, a sort of little tease to let the young man have his fun. Of course, having forgotten to keep track of him, for they really did not think it was necessary, he had risen in power among one of the houses, though it was such a small leap of power it went undetected and the very thought he could do anything within his seat was discarded like common garbage. There were far more things to worry about, like rebellion, not some spoiled rich child playing the game 'government official'.
The moonlight had gone from the window beside Angelo's desk, and in its place a thin line of sunrise took to the sky. The morning light set a dim, golden glow to everything in the room, a very clean and spacious room that seemed ridiculous for one person, and then a heavy oak desk with piles of books and papers and then a sleek desktop computer upon which Angelo was leant wearily over.
He had been up all night planning his next move, a very tedious sort of game to play. He needed a different man to voice his opinion, he had used the other one too much, he had vanished just yesterday morning. A stupid mistake, he had gotten sloppy; too confident. It wouldn't happen again. Angelo rested his forehead into his long fingers and seemed to rest for a moment, focusing on his illuminated computer screen thoughfully. Though, with a scuffle outside his bedroom door he tensed and cleared everything from his screen with a press of a single button. He waited another moment and he heard the sound again. He did not seemed too surprised or alarmed, in fact, he seemed to smile as though he had expected it.
Angelo kept very still and very slowly and clamly he removed his reading glasses from his long nose and rose to his feet. He kept his dark eyes fixed sharply on the door and in a fluid movement stole over to his large bed, that had not been used at all for several nights, and extracted an old fashioned revolver from beneath his many pillows. He quietly checked to see if it was loaded and at hearing the quiet click he stole over towards the door with a funny sort of smile and threw it open, the gun held before him with a well practiced air.
They finally came to get me, was all he could think. Come to get me in my bedclothes.
Though, what he was to find was not some secret police here to silence him permanently before age could do it itself. He was to find a very startled butler pressed up against the opposite wall with his hands held up in a sort of surrender and a sheet of paper clutched fearfully in one hand. Angelo stared at him for a moment and then dropped his position, laughing like something very funny had just ocurred. In fact, he was laughing so hard he had to lean up against the doorframe, his sheet of dark hair spilling about his shoulders and face. The butler looked at him like he had gone mad, though his expression didn't change much from the one he was wearing previous.
"Oh GOD!" Angelo exclaimed looking to the gun again as he raised it in his hand. "I thought you had been a MOUSE." He stated, and then with the absurtity of his own statement fell into a bout of light laughter once more.
The butler, a rather old fellow with a nervous habbit of chewing on his mustache did so now, and tried to regain what little composure he had left. "A m-mouse, sir?" He questioned as breezily as he could. He was sure Angelo had finally gone mad in this world of immortals.
Angelo continued to laugh. "Oh yes... a mouse. Those dirty, nasty little things." He remarked with a little quirk in his mouth. Though, his laughter was quite quickly over, even though his disarming smile remained and his rather dark eyes settled back to the paper still clutched in the butler's hand. "What's that you have there? Something for me?" He asked in a charming voice and striding forward a few steps.
The butler tried to back up, but just looked silly doing so since he was already pressed flat into the wall. "MMhm." He grunted low in his throat, and smoothed out his dark suit. "It was left by the old drawing room downstairs... you know the one in the west wing-"
"I really couldn't care WHICH drawing room it was, we have THOUSANDS od drawing rooms, but it's for me then?" If Angelo's eyes hadn't been such a deep shade one might have thought they were alive with thousands of thoughts of what the letter might contain, but instead they looked only innocently curious.
"It did come for you, sir." The butler responded a little nervously. "I thought I should tell you before I had it thrown away... it's quite illegal you see."
"Oh, now, now. Don't be so silly." Angelo said lightly and closed the space between them. "I at least want to read what it says." He grinned at the short butler rather mischievously and grabbed the paper with his hand that wasn't still grasping at the gun.
"B-but, sir...!"
Angelo easily silenced him by raising the gun in a sign of silence along with a commanding index finger. It wasn't the index finger that silenced the butler. Angelo had most definitely gone stark raving mad, but he said nothing and watched as the elegant man read over the contents of the crumpled letter. His eyes nor did his expression betray his emotions, but he looked quite serious. The butler was almost startled by such an avid expression, but it quickly cleared.
"The drawing room you said?" Angelo asked in a sing song voice. He tapped the barrel of the gun thoughtfully to his temple.
"Y-yes... sir... in the west wing-"
"That seems so silly... leaving a love note in the DRAWING room. This woman obviously has no sense of daring or romantic creativity to leave it in a BETTER place." The young man scoffed and glided back to his room. "Honestly. I think I should just dump her for being so DAFT. Silly woman... love note leaving should always be left to the MAN, if you ask me... don't you think so, my good man?" He glanced over his shoulder at the butler who had quirked a brow so high it went into his line of balding hair.
"Why... yes, very good, sir?"
"Exactly... though she does get points for writing an actual letter, what a brave little dear. An illegal love note, I say! Whatelse could be better in a relationship?" And with that he vanished within the confines of his room once again, the letter quickly burned and discarded within the ashes of his fireplace.
It semed a joke what had actually been written in the letter, even more so than the love letter idea, and he seemed very skeptical to trust it at all. It had been so foolishly left out in the open so that anyone could have read it. Was the man who had left it just stupid, or desperate? It was even more ridiculous when Angelo found he knew the name adressed on the letter, someone in a very high seat of power whom he heard was a little unsettled with all that was happening in the world. It seemed too much to risk for one man... but yet, these were desperate times.
In the early morning Angelo retired to his bed, deciding to call off work today. Today he had better things to do and it was later that day that he dressed and headed for the mansion mentioned in the letter.
((Yeah.,.. He'll show up next post... WOO! WHEEE!... etc... I want breakfast... *trudges off*))
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Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 4:53 pm
(I POST! Finally...about time, yes?)
Coraline stared in front of her and her face twisted in what looked very much like disgust and if one had asked, they would have been right. For what was going through her face right now was disgust, annoyance, exasperation and loathing as she stared in front of her at the marbled, well taken care of enemy in front of her. There were not enough words to describe how much she hated that thing, the endless source of annoyance for her which she had to deal with every day. Brushing her auburn hair behind her ear impatiently, she reached out her other hand to reach out towards the enemy and started her long trek up into her home. Blasted stairs.
After about two or three minutes of walking up those stupid steps she had made it to the top of the stairs and cast them a final withering glare before reaching out to the knocker on the door and slammed it several times before leaning back on her heels, eager to get out of her nice clothes. Moments later, a maid opened the door for the girl, looking just a little annoyed and let her in. The knocker was just there for show and tradition, not to really be used. The normal way was really just to knock with the hand or to press the doorbells but she still loved using the knocker, more because it pissed her parents off more than anything.
She trudged up another set of stairs towards her room and then disappeared into her closed room, changing from her current formal clothes into a baggy white shirt with a hood as well as black capris and sandals and was about to head into the kitchen when another maid showed up next to her.
"Miss?" Coraline jumped sharply, not having had noticed her-darn silent maid people- and then turned her head towards the person with a bored looking look that signaled for her to continue, even if she did have to look up at her. "You have been directed to go to the library. Someone would like to meet with you." Why did no one ever say if it was her mother or father? It's not like it was important. Nevertheless, she went down, sweeping past the maid.
Course...she didn't walk down all those steps...oh no! She jumped onto a banister and swept down, looking pleased with herself and then jumped off towards the library. Wondering what she'd done now, she was more than pleasantly surprised to see who had called her.
"Good afternoon dear, I'm sure you don't mind having some tea with your dear old auntie?" Asked the still young looking woman who was smartly dressed in a business skirt and blouse. Coraline shook her head, a smile spreading over her face wonderfully.
"Aunt Nora! Of course not! Why are you here?" Her aunt glanced towards the door and motioned for her to shut it and she did so before sitting down on a chair across from her aunt. Nora motioned for the young woman to come closer and she did so before her aunt spoke.
"Be glad I came before your parents did. Otherwise I'm afraid you'd be in plenty of trouble." She reached into her blouse where she stored a hidden bag and pulled something out, a letter by the looks of it. Coraline's eyes widened as she opened her mouth to speak and her aunt shushed her. "Quiet. Yes, this is a letter. A written letter. I'm sure you know what this means?"
Coraline nodded, mystified. What idiot left a written, not to mention illegal, letter here?
"I found it underneath a coaster actually and it was directed to you." Nora raised an eyebrow before handing the letter to the girl. It was opened and looked as if it had been pulled out.
"You read my letter!" She sounded outraged now but her aunt shook her head.
"No. Just to make sure it wasn't from anyone anonymous. It's from a John Wimbleton. I can assure you that I did not read the contents. Your mother would. Now I will assume that this is nothing more than a practical joke and nothing else. This is simply unacceptable and please inform your friend that this cannot happen again." She looked intimidating as she stood up and Coraline blinked before realizing that the doorknob was opening. She hadn't heard it.
Nodding, she apologized. "I'm very sorry for the trouble." And then disappeared into her room again to read the letter.
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Thus thirty minutes later, she found herself running towards the man's house, a strange expression on her face. How odd this letter was, and ridiculous. Still...she had nothing better to do and so she headed towards the door and knocked...very glad that it lacked stairs.
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Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:35 pm
Jacob scowled at the slimy trashbin, tossing an empty beer bottle into it. "'S your fault I lost me lucky bottle cap," he told it, his eyes narrowed into slits. "'S your fault I'm immortal," he said now, lighting a cigarette. "'S yer fault Eric hates me."
Taking a long drag on the joint, he blew the smoke out from his mouth slowly, glad for the fact that this, if anything, could kill him- which, at this point, he wanted, very, very, much. "'S yer fault the Asylum city police look at me and laugh."
Licking his lips, Jake flipped the hair from his eyes, keeping a steady eye on the trashbin at the same time. "'S your fault my sister's dead," He muttered angrily this time, and grabbing another empty beer bottle from the group that rested at his side. Raising it into the air, he brought it down in a swift motion and threw it-no, chucked it- straight at the grimy side of the trash receptacle. It shattered, the glass ricocheting away further into the darkened alley.
Standing up, Jacob shoved his hands into his sweatshirt's front pocket, glared at the bin once more, and walked away. At the entrance into the street, he turned around, gave the trash another glare and promptly shot it the bird. Then he was on his way again.
It wasn't always the trashbin, sometimes it was a random person on the street that was the brunt of his wrath, or maybe it was one of those squirrels in the park. But he always found something to yell at, as a way to relieve his burden.
Making his way to the abandoned house he called home, Jacob discarded his cigarette, mashing it beneath his beaten old shoes.
Walking up the small path to the porch, he took a seat on the steps. The door was locked, so he couldn't get in. Usually he took refuge on the sheltered porch, or in the backyard, where he had set up a makeshift tent. His stomach growled audibly, and his hands moved to cover it subconsciously.
"'Ey, shut up down there," Jake told it half-heartedly. Sitting up, he leaned back against the door, scraping the moth-eaten welcome mat across the floor as he did so. Looking down at it, he traced the flowery patterns with his finger. Noticing that he was sitting on something, he lifted his butt and slid whatever-it-was out from under him.
It seemed to be a letter, tucked away in a neat little envelope with a neat little seal at the lip. Deciding that he hated neat things, he tore it open sloppily, succeeding in tearing the envelope in places it didn't need to be. Scanning the note, he tucked it away into his jeans pocket.
He had forgotten he could read. Maybe he should go thank whoever had sent this letter to him personally, and leave. Directing his idea into all corners of his mind, he wondered again where Eric was. Although the guy only came out in a certain situation, he often gave Jacob advice throughout the day, just for the heck of being a voice inside your head.
Shrugging his shoulders, he got up from the step and began to head for the district it said the sender was in. It was in the upper-class district, far away from the slums he was currently in. Smiling to himself, he remembered something another homeless person had told him: the rich threw all kinds of stuff away, and you could get just about anything you wanted.
He would go and thank this person, and in the meantime, go shopping.
((O.O;; >.<))
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:07 am
((*will edit this* Just sayin' Ima posting when I wake up O.o I stayed home sick, so I'll be up around noon, which is 4 hours. Sorry about being gone this weekend... things were hectic to say the least. And I twas in WV *nod nod*))
"Miss Illuna, it's time that you awoke... It's almost 2:00 in the afternoon and you have affairs to attend to... Miss..." a young but stocky maid shook the 11 year-old before her gently, almost hesitantly.
The eyes of the young girl, Illuna simply remained closed, however, she sat up, rubbing her eyes gently, giving a rather childish yawn accompanied with a long stretch. The maid relaxed seeing that the young child wasn't throwing a fit this morning, normally, the daily routine of waking the young miss, was a task and a half. However, just as this thought passed her mind, Illuna fell back onto the bed, pulling the covers over her head with two small hands.
"Please young miss, I don't want to go through your typical routine..." the maid gave a sigh, shaking the curled form that now rested under the blankets. The poor un-expecting maid soon found herself on the bed, the 11 year-old Illuna gnawing on her shoulder ferverently, clinging to the maid's front giving a maniacal laugh muffled by the maid’s fabric.
Letting out a shriek, the maid flung the young girl off of her and ran from the room as fast as her stocky legs could carry her, leaving a giggling Illuna on the bed. "I never get tired of doing that to the new maids," she spoke cheerily, obviously wide awake. Giving a light lilting laugh, she jumped out of the bed, pulling her shorts back up around her waist and straightening her long t-shirt.
She moved over to the wardrobe, flinging open the rather large door, stepping out of the way as it clunked against the wall. The young girl disappeared inside, searching through rack after rack of clothing, for something appropriate to wear for the days affairs. However, a knock on the door caught her attention, as well as the creaking of a door.
“You miss, I’ve found a letter tucked under the front door this morning… it was addressed to you… Would you like it…” an aged man questioned, walking slowly through the door.
Illuna poked her head excitedly out of the wardrobe, “A letter!? But aren’t those illegal!” she practically chimed, skipping over to the old man. “Thank you! You can go now.”
The older man nodded, though a bit hesitantly, and left. After all, a letter addressed to an 11 year-old child, could be nothing of great importance… could it?
Illuna however, knew better, and with a serious look passing over her young face, she slid her fingers under the flap of the envelope, pulling out the fragile paper letter inside. Reading over it quickly she almost laughed, someone was actually going to try it? Try to overthrow the current government of immortals?
She gave a sigh, it was a rather important person on the council as well, so, for all she knew it could be a trap, a trap set by the upper chairs to weed out the traitors. Somehow though, she knew that wasn't the case. But why call upon an 11 year-old to help... She may have been 21 at heart, but... well, she didn't act it.
Tapping her chin, she gave a sigh, and moved back into the wardrobe, she would take the rest of the day off, and travel to this mans mansion, to ask him herself. That was the only reason she was going... The only reason... She tried desperately to convince herself of that, though she knew, that she was lying to herself. She moved out of the wardrobe with a loose sort of tank top on, a backwards baseball cap, and slightly loose ragged darkblue jeans.
She moved out of the door waving to the butler, "I'm going out somewhere, tell my parents that my affairs will have to be postponed," she spoke merrily, skipping down the stairs.
"Yes Miss Illuna," he said giving a bow.
Once down the stairs, Illuna moved to the fire pit, where a fire was always lit, keeping the cool marble room relatively warm, and tossed the letter in, watching it burn. Once sure that it was a pile of ashes, she turned and skipped out the door, moving quickly down the street toward the mentioned address.
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After maybe, 10 minutes, Illuna was standing in front of the door, ice blue eyes gazing up at the door before her with a sort of intensity. Pushing silver locks out of her face, she reached up a small hand, and knocked on the door, rather hard. Illuna had arrived.
((what happened to getting it done tomorrow you ask? The fact that my father didn't go to work... He wouldn't let me get on, then... well I sorta drifted from the computer for a bit... Sorry >.<))
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Alandra_Noir Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:42 am
It wasn't too long before others started to arrive, and John was quite sure he just might faint from the happiness of it. While he was quite exicted that Drake had shown up, he was still a bit antsy about the man, due to his job. He was in the government's secret police, as it were, and the possibility of an information leak was extremely high.
And so he'd left the blonde man in one of the large guest halls, hoping he'd be distracted enough by the good food to forget searching the house. It was at this point that Mr. Wimbleton had realized just how big a chance he took. In fact, he'd started to panic (having quite a spell of hyperventalation and nearly passed out) when there was another knock on the door. Quickly composing himself (and thanking whatever gods may be out there that he'd learned to do so) he shuffled to the door, opening it to find Agatha standing on the stoop. Luckily, he'd already accustomed himself to her strange looks, and gave her a feeble smile. "Agatha! Welcome!" He spread his arms wide then stepped back, ushering her into his home. "I'm honoured that you answered my letter. Please, please come in. Drake, another to whom I sent a letter is already waiting. There is a buffet should you be hungry." He then led the young woman to the room, all but pushing her inside before he once more took to pacing the entrance hall, waiting for the others.
Shortly after one another, each letter reciepent had arrived, Angelo last. Each was greeted enthusiastically by Mr. Wimbleton, and with every person's arrival, his level of relief rose, until the man was practically crying with the feeling. If nothing else, he seemed a bit eccentric, but how could one blame him? He'd been wound too tight for decades, and finally, FINALLY was taking action against what he hated most.
Once all gathered, John too entered the room he'd prepared and announced that while he gathered his thoughts, they should all get to know each other, because if all went to plan, they'd be working close, and in secret. And so the man took a seat in one of the many large and comfortable leather chairs, a contemplative look crossing his slightly wrinkled face.
Drake, who had been there for quite some time had finished off a number of plates of food and was staring boredly at a half-eaten turkey leg that remained on his plate. This Wimbleton had gathered QUITE a crew indeed. A little girl, a punk-dressed woman, and that one guy seemed to be talking to himself just a little too much. A couple of them looked fairly normal, but the man with the long dark hair was sorta creepy.
The blonde gave a bit of a sigh and ran his hand through his hair, second guessing his choice to show up at all. And now they were being asked to INTERACT, heaven forbid. Drake had always told himself to stay distant... He never knew when he'd have to, as they called it, black bag anyone he knew. He wasn't sure that he'd be able to live for who knows how long with that sort of guilt. He had enough as it was.
But, giving his name wasn't too horrid he supposed. He'd humor the man... He was John Wimbleton after all. It wasn't every day you met a mamber of the Head Council of the House.
And so, Drake took one final bite of his turkey, and setting the plate down, systematically stepped up to each person, shaking their hand and offering his name simply as Drake. Last names were held generally as close to their owner as possible. At least, that's what Drake believed. YOu could never be too careful. He flashed each and every one a well-practiced smile, and once done took his seat in his chair again. There, done. Now, what was this all ABOUT?
Once John was satisfied with everyone's introducing themselves to each other, he got to his feet and cleared his throat to catch their attention. "Through my letter, I assume that all of you know at least vaguely why you are here... I fully understand the risk all of you took in coming here, and for that I thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have given hope to me, and I hope the same to the people of this city." He took a kercheif from his pocket and dabbed at his forehead. He'd taken to pacing again, and it was making Drake dizzy watching him.
"Last night, an idea came to me that had been forming for years. We all know the government has become corrupt and unjust, so bloated with power they can't see past their own noses as to what's really happening. I hope to change that." John swallowed.
"Change that how? By overthrowing them?" Drake put in with a bit of a laugh.
Wimbleton gave a grave nod. "EXACTLY that, Drake. There's no other way. They won't listen to reason anymore. And so, a new system must be formed. No one can live like this anymore... Always in fear, in horrid conditions... In their own wastes. It has to stop, and I'm humbly asking for your aid." He turned his eyes to each person there in turn. In his pleading tone, he'd left little reason to disbelieve him.
The man took a moment once more to gather his thoughts and continued onward, hoping that no one would simply get to their feet and leave at how ridiculous his proposal sounded. "It's a known, but unspoken fact that the government has a group of secret police who silence those who need to be, and remove any problems before they can start... I hope, that with you seven, and ONLY you seven, we'll create a group of our own. Secret in many ways, but well known throughout the city and its outer limits.
"It will be dangerous, for the House isn't so blinded by their power they won't see the threat... It's very possible you will be taken and killed... but I can only pray that the prospect of a brighter future will sway you in your choice. I can but aid you in these efforts while still retaining my position in the House. I chose every one of you for your differing abilities and the subtle clues you each have left as to your true views about the way life is. I simply ask that should you decline my offer, that no word is spread about it, for it would mean the death, or incarceration for eternity of every one of us here."
His speech finished for the time being, John sat down once more, a heavy, tired look on his face. He looked imporingly to the others and spread his hands once more, bidding them to ask anything they wanted. He was willing and ready to do everything he could to convince them of his own beliefs.
Drake, who had found himself both bored with the words, but entranced by the idea opted to remain silent for the time being, and think over what had just been said. The prospect was simply outrageous, and nigh impossible. Overthrow the government? Seven people, in secret, would overthrow the government. Right. But, if they could gather a following? The government couldn't kill or imprison EVERYONE... They wouldn't, would they?
This all seemed so outlandish, so RIDICULOUS that he was tempted to simply laugh at the man, call him crazy, and leave. But, he didn't... Because he WANTED it to be true. He was SICK AND TIRED of living as he had for how many years now? He couldn't remember. Either way, he decided to stay for the time being, and would pose any questions he had when they came. For now he'd sit, wait, watch, and think. And Drake had to admit, the idea was tempting.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:41 pm
Agatha almost felt her stomach churn at the mans enthusiasm. Oh god...oh god. Aggie just starred at him blankly, eerie eyes watching his every move with the look of both disgust, confusion, and annoyance. His words hardly reached her ears as she ushered her in. Pulling at her baggy pants she simply looked away without a word and watched the food, wondering what to eat first. It all look foreign, she was used to chips, apples, chicken, and water. And rarely ever beef.
As she looked over to the man already there she instantly had the feeling he was an immortal, she tended to get vibes from people that way. And so, she simply did not utter a word to him, and began picking at the food, wondering what some of it was.
Finally she decided, simply, not to eat. She didn't trust immortals, nor mortals for that matter. No one in this world could be trusted but themselves. Now and again she didn't even trust her brother and sister, hence why she never let them touch any of her weapons in her room or important notices.
After getting as far away from everyone as possible, but still able to hear, she watched John talk, her eyes looking past him and studying a painting on the wall. It wasn't in her nature to really pay attention, though she did understand what he was saying. And she thought it was lunacy. Really, did he actually think these people could do that? They all looked either weak, absent minded, or just plain untrusting. However, she did like the idea...and had something in her that was edging her to join. But she got nothing out of this, no money, and having to stay with these people...these...things.
"I work by myself." She stated in her smokey, but sexy voice and looked to the others with green, purple ringed eyes. Scilence then, her arms placed on her rounded hips, her jeans low on them, though still up. "But as long as I get to show those nasty immortals what their worth...I'll do it." Her eyes still were cold, showing no enthusiasm or interest at all. And finally she placed her brown fingers on a berry, sniffed it, studied it, and then ate it. Which was in her way, showing that she'd do the job...or that she trusted him, for the time being. As she knew, no one could be trusted.
((Haha woooow...that sucked...but forgive me...I'm half awake...I've been getting NOOOOO sleep this past week. >:[ ))
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:01 am
((WHEEE! POSTEH!))
When Angelo had arrived at the estate, he had to admit he was quite thrown at John's exuberance at his arrival. It was enough to make him laugh, and he did so as he was tugged inside litterally by the end of his tie. He was ushered inside before he could really get a word in, even if he had only wanted to say hello. So, Angelo let himself be lead in, casting the seemingly ancy rich fellow one of his famous disarming smiles.
"Good afternoon to you too, sir." He manged to say as he was lead into a room where a number of other guests had been gathered. He smoothed down his tie with an elegant hand and looked about the room with a innocent curosity. Then, having taken in everyone and just about everything, he strode into the room and to the table where the food was set. He breezily stuck a few odds and ends upon a plate and then settled himself within a chair where he had a good view of everyone in the room.
While he was eating what he had gathered on his plate John suggested they'd get to know eachother and it was then that Angelo's pleasant facade darkened for a moment as he cast his eye about the room, though it vanished within an instant like the expression had been caused by nothing more than a sudden change in lighting. The elegant man was quick to introduce himself to everyone just as soon as Drake had finished (casting all the women in the room an exta charming smile and introducing himself with his full title: Angelo Deimos and a well practiced handshake), before making it around to Drake again and skipping over him entirely since they had already been introduced. He merely bobbed his head to show he wasn't being slighted, and his dark eyes locked with his for a moment before he returned to his seat, looking entirely comfortable with the whole situation.
It wasn't too long after that John stood up to speak about present matters, and Angelo leaned forward in his seat slightly, but took to examining his food while he listened and then systematically sticking it into his mouth. Angelo had learned long ago that listening to someone's voice was an easy way to read a person, and that appearences were not to be trusted because in these times everyone was a well practiced liar and usually a tone of voice, a catch in the throat... told more than a shift of the eyes, or an idle tapping of fingers. So, Angelo never looked a person straight in the eyes when he spoke.
At Drake's question he looked at him hard for a moment, but then went back to examining his food. A skeptic, a lot like how he was feeling at the moment. He also took note of how the other's might have been watching, mostly the woman with the very blank face that even he was incapable of reading. She didn't even seem to be paying attention at all.
When John had finally finished and had settled wearily into his seat, Angelo finally looked up and set his mostly empty plate aside. The room was very silent, and no one was speaking up, except, after a moment, that blank faced young woman who agreed she'd do it. Angelo rubbed his chin thoughtfully and looked pointedly to Mr. Wimbleton and spoke to him in a very clear voice.
"So... the seven of us," He cast a thin fingered hand about the room, "against the very large, very controlling, very deadly, opressive government?" He smiled thinly and then laughed. "I'm in." He said simply. "I think you're bloody well mad, but I haven't heard a better idea yet..." He nodded his head, and his eyes took on an almost caculating look for a moment.
"There have been others... I'm sure you're more aware than anyone else in this room, Mr. Wimbleton, who have tried and been quickly dealt with by the secret police. Like the rebellion in the Old City not too loong back... it said in the newspapers 'Terrorists take government officals Hostage', but I'm sure you knew different at the time, because not too much later that whole sector was massacred and then put off with the excuse that they all had been plotting against our government." He inclined his head and then got to his feet. "There is just one thing I want to know... one thing that will make me do this to the best of my abilitly, no slip ups, no leaking of information... because you know very well any of us could report you to the government and take in the reward like any other selfish b*****d in this nation..."
He fixed his sharp eyes on John for a moment and clasped his hands behind his back. "Are you doing this because you feel guitly? Some overstuff pompous official feeling a suddden need to be held in a good light? Or are you doing this because you know it's right." And then Angelo fell very silent and waited for his response.
((TA DAAAAAAAH!!!!... etc!))
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