The Beast Within [Dark*Matter D20]

[loxmyth]

"Oh right, you're the Animal Control people?" The receptionist says somewhat redundantly. He takes three sets of keys down from the wall behind the desk and passes them over to John.

"So, I hear you're looking for a bear. Bit of a weird place for one to have ended up, isn't it? I guess it must have escaped from a zoo or something, huh?" He asks chattily.

"We figure it's one of those migrating bears, took a wrong turn back in Montana," Daunte quips with a grin.

To his companions, he says, "How about we go get some Mexican. You guys like tex-mex? If there's a good one close by, Caleb and I could meet you there."

 

[Thomas Hobbes]

John shrugs. "As you like."

 

[Verbatim]

"Some chips and salsa always hit the spot with me."

Gathering his bags, he waits for Mick to get his key before walking out with him to their room.

Turning back to face Daunte, Caleb calls out once more before the door closes behind him.

"Meet you outside in fifteen minutes."

 

[flyingricepaddy]

"Well, tex-mex sounds just fine. But first I gotta see a man about a dog."

Mick walks back with Caleb to their room, compliments the decor (without a hint of irony, absurdly enough), and deposits his gear. As his choice of idiom would indicate, he makes a visit to the w/c, but first he stands in the doorway of the room and gives a sharp whistle, which brings Pes bounding out of the van and into the room with a vigour unprecedented during the day's long, lazy ride.

"Hope you don't mind dogs," he says to his roomie. "Don't worry 'bout Pes none, he's real obedient. He doesn't even really shed all that much."

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

Lisa takes her room key, heading to the room with her duffel. Within a minute, the sound of water rushing through the pipes announces her shower.

 

[Verbatim]

"Well, tex-mex sounds just fine. But first I gotta see a man about a dog."

Mick walks back with Caleb to their room, compliments the decor (without a hint of irony, absurdly enough), and deposits his gear. As his choice of idiom would indicate, he makes a visit to the w/c, but first he stands in the doorway of the room and gives a sharp whistle, which brings Pes bounding out of the van and into the room with a vigour unprecedented during the day's long, lazy ride.

"Hope you don't mind dogs," he says to his roomie. "Don't worry 'bout Pes none, he's real obedient. He doesn't even really shed all that much."

"Don't mind them at all. Growing up, my uncle had a small farm up in 'Bama and he raised lab pups for as long as I can remember."

While his new roommate uses the restroom, Caleb changes into his running gear and stretches before going to meet Daunte out in the parking lot.

 

[loxmyth]

Daunte quickly jogs up to the room, throws down his duffle on the bed closest to the window, and quickly starts disrobing like a man used to changing at the drop of a hat. Soon, he's exchanged his sweatshirt and jeans for a pair of grey fleece jogging pants and a white cotton t-shirt.
"I'm leaving the rest of the team in your care," Daunte tells John with a conspiratorial wink. "Feel free to go over and get to know everyone else. It's all you, man."

Then he does a few stretches to work the kinks out of his bunched muscles and hustles down to the parking lot to meet Caleb.

 

[Thomas Hobbes]

"I'm leaving the rest of the team in your care," Daunte tells John with a conspiratorial wink. "Feel free to go over and get to know everyone else. It's all you, man."

John gives Daunte a skeptical over the rim of his glasses and the edge of his book as he reclines on his bed.

"Barring anyone falling down in the shower, I think we should be able to get to the Mexican restaraunt without any major snafus," he says drily. "See you there." After Daunte leaves, John takes a few minutes to do the required freshening up (he showered this morning, so it's not much) and moves his reading position to the lobby. He gives the clerk a friendly nod, then sits down with his book on Occultism and a notebook in one of the chairs. He tries to keep the book flat on his lap so the clerk can't read the spine. He periodically jots down a note or two in incomprehensible handwriting.

 

[Verbatim]

Nodding in greeting as Daunte approached, Caleb pointed to the road ahead of them.

"Well I figure since the others are all wanting to get clean and stretch out some that we could get about 5 in and still meet them at a decent time. Any prefrences?"

OOC: We can RP the run as much or as little as you all want, as I don't want to hold the game up with this little outing. Did it basically for more "life" in the char..

 

[Jarval]

(OoC: If everyone's ready to move on, I'll shift the scene to the tex-mex place.)