*Torr, later that evening Pearl, Chastity, and Scarlet arrive in a lovely gilded carriage, carved with symbols of joy and pleasure. It is one of Madam Gloria's "special" conveyances she uses for clients that have the pockets for it. Madam Gloria's House even has the approval and blessings of the churches of Sune and Lliira, as they embody the ideals of both faiths.*
*Pearl is a lovely young woman of northern stock, with beautiful pale skin with a pearl-like sheen, silver-blond hair, and silver eyes. Her skin and hair are dusted with crushed pearl powder, and her makeup cunningly applied to give her eyes the appearance of a beautiful oyster embracing a silver pearl. She wears pale pink silk accetuated with a small fortune worth of pearls in white, silver, and gold. Her hair is braided with ropes of them. On of her favorite tricks involves her special power. She is able to share her senses with another, and would often do this with a client to allow him to experience her own pleasure as she indulges in some of her own making.*
*Scarlet is a fire-genasi, with a brilliant fall of red hair and eyes like fine orange topaz. Her skin carries a flush of heat and shows the copper burnish of those native to the warmer south. She tends to wear red silk with a flowing train, like flames, and adores red gold jewelry with rubies. The fiery stones flash at her ears, neck, wrists, hands, hair, and waist, even her feet are encased in ruby-encrusted slippers. Her speciality consists of sensuous massage with heated oils.*
*Chastity is one that only tends to go to the those with the deepest pockets. Though she is much older than she looks, she is a sorceress that has employed her magic to keep her at the perpetual age of twelve. She hovers eternally at that sacred cusp between being a girl and being a woman. She embodies every aspect of a virginial bride, golden-blond hair in a young woman's flowing locks, woven through with babies' breath and pink rosebuds, limpid blue eyes full of innocence, a faint blush to her milk-clear skin, and dressed in eternal virginial white, wearing the veil of a bride. Her speciality lies in her acting ability, and her sorcerous arts, so that every time she embodies the nervousness, innocence, uncertainty, and delightful ignorance of a young girl. Every time she is taken is as if it is her first, both in body and in her acting. Most willingly allow themselves to be deceived to take her over and over again. She's probably the richest woman in the House.*
*The three present themselves in their fashions, Pearl elegantly, Scarlet seductively, and Chastity demurely. You tell them what you wish of them, and Chastity is delighted to play along to increase Rosalyn's anguish. You have a light meal together, allowing Scarlet to feed you finger foods while Rosalyn serves you, tears in her eyes. When Scarlet becomes more bold, engaging in some delightful massage at the table, Rosalyn gasps and nearly drops the wine pitcher more than once. Pearl ignores it blithely, while Chastity is "utterly shocked" and turns to your serving maid for "comfort from that decadent man." You "allow" Rosalyn to have several glasses of wine, to further take down her barriers, occasionally dropping a word or phrase about how much she means to you, even as Scarlet continues her ministrations. She alternately blushes with pride, love, anger, and embarassment as dinner goes on.*
*Finally you retire to the bedroom, allowing Pearl to entertain you with her speciality, delighting in her pleasure as Scarlet slides you out of your garments (and hers, not so incidentally) to continue with a more complete version of what she started at dinner. You pleasure yourself with both of them, occasionally calling Rosalyn to assist in removing a boot, a tightly-laced corset, or other little thing, reveling in her anguish each time she comes near. Chastity sits near her on the bench, skillfully pretending to share in her pain, sympathyzing with her and expressing fear and loathing toward you.*
*Later in the evening you call Chastity to you, and she goes into her full "uncertain virgin bride" act, you coaxing, she protesting, until you are "forced" to "ravage" her in her virginial white dress, Pearl and Scarlet assisting you. More than once you have heard Rosalyn choking back sobs, but this final betrayal has her weeping openly as you complete your amusement with Chastity. Finally, must later, you finish with all three women, and the clean themselves up and prepare to leave. Rosalyn is required to help them into their dresses, and is shocked when Chastity gives her a few acidic words about little servant girls who were fooled by the clever acting of a whore. Rosalyn is crying opening at the end of it, as she holds the door open for the three prostitutes when the leave the house, to return to Madame Gloria's in their guilded carriage.*
*To further the servant girl's sweet anguish and confusion you give her a full kiss on the lips and a loving, intimate carass before bidding her to retire for the night. Stormrider was fantastically gorged on Rosalyn's jealousy and anguish, and nearly satisfied. There's only a few more things you could do to the girl to push her farther. Hmm... perhaps she might be angered enough to attempt to kill one of your whores, an amusing though, though Madame Gloria would not approve.*
*In the morning you receive a note from your tailor that he is ready to measure and sew your new clothes today at your convenience. When you arrive, the short, dark man with a nervous air has a wide selection of different fabrics and braids for your approval. After describing the nature of your party, the tailor nods and eventually helps select a golden-brown broadcade with a subtle pattern of foxes, with a tasteful golden braid and elegant brown silk for the cuffs and shirt, along with similar material for the hose. Next door the jeweler can find you a good belt of golden plates in a leaf pattern with a fox for a buckle, a golden ring with a lovely golden topaz, and equally fine buckles for the new boots the tailor is have being made for you. Add your signet ring and you will fit it quite well with any noble crowd. All said and done, the new clothing, jewelry, and boots will cost you around two hundred gold, and they'll have it done by Fifthday.*
*That done, you return home to find a rather urgent message waiting for you, with a messenger waiting to take your return message. It is written neatly, on fine paper, with dark green ink being used, and sealed with a blue wax seal that shows a sunflower.*
Lord Torr,
There's been a complication on our business transaction and we need to meet immediately to discuss alternate courses of action. Send word upon your availabilty at once.
~Lord Ravyn Rosewatcher
*Torr, that name is a pseudonym used in dealing with the Black Butterfly.*
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*Ralam, when you come home from Beshaba's temple you are utterly exhausted. You can do little else but sleep that day, and dream. Your dreams are not so troubled as before, but they are still odd. When you begin having the dreams again, of the empty streets echoing the cruel laughter, a beautiful woman with dark hair and eyes that speak of doom and despair appears on them, interposing herself between the dreams and you. She stays the blood flowing in the streets, banishes the hiding dark thing, and brushes aside your fear.*
*Even so you have a feeling that eventually her presence might cause you more concern, given enough time. Her beauty seems... poisonous somehow, as if having her would mean you could only have her until the end of time. But if it is truly Beshaba that is helping you, that could be all too true. It is said that men have lost themselves to the love of the Maid of Misfortune before. But for now she is your dark angel, protecting you from the terrors of the night.*
*In the morning you have a messenger waiting for you, sealed with blue wax with a sunflower seal, written with green ink on fine paper.*
Lord Ralam,
There's been a complication on our business transaction and we need to meet immediately to discuss alternate courses of action. Some magical detection could cause discomfort for your client. Send word upon your availabilty at once.
~Lord Ravyn Rosewatcher
*Ralam, the pseudonym is one for the Black Butterfly. The bit about magical detection could mean that someone has been employing some very potent divination magic to find out the captain's killer.*
