Vampire: The Masquerade - Who Wants To Live Forever?

[Strider_Koln]

So after running through the streets of Los Angeles like two children through the shopping mall, Meredith and Koln come upon Daleys, a rather plain and inconspicuous restaurant next to an abandoned building which you can assume is the brewery.

The brewery looks out of place in this fairly well-kept part of town. The windows of the building are completely boarded up and there are boards and chains baring the doors. The neighborhood itself is quiet and only dimly lit by a few street lights, mostly business buildings and parking garages populate this part of the downtown.

Koln and Meredith enter the Anarch haven, as per the instructions Jack gave to them back at the Succubus Club.

 

[Tale_Weaver]

Downton Los Angeles 2:15am

Clover smiled and leaned back in her seat; beginning to enjoy this "girl time". Since coming to Los Angeles, she had spent nearly every waking minute with Koln or worrying about Koln. Sometimes she spoke on the phone to Mindy, her ghoul, roommate, and friend she had left behind in Denver. But that wasn't quite the same as actually getting to speak to someone who was not quite as.... Well, no, Lacey was crazy. But in a different way.

She began to relax a little and she stared out the window, "To eat? The pretty ones, of course. For some reason, my delicate Ventrue stomach can't seem to take anyone else. I get sick. They have to be male, attractive, sexy..." Her eyes flashed with mischief as she looked back at Lacey, "I call them 'metrosexuals'. Luckily, California seems to be good... er... feeding ground for that. I guess you're luck you don't need to worry about such things."

"All right, so, boys? Ok, tell me about this Alex person. And not just that he's the 'love of your life' and all that. I mean really, what's his deal?"

Lacey laughs almost creepily and says in a dreamy voice "Alex, well...he is my butterfly. I trapped him in a net of silk and black lace. We had many great adventures together while living in his castle in France. We even saved the city and the Prince with the goldfish. And then..."

Lacey pauses for a minute and sighs "Alex wasn't like any boyfriends I ever had. When we had our dates I felt like he was talking to my face more than my chest....or was it the other way around? Anyway, you could say that he loved me for my minds. He even tried to make me whole again. Unfortunately it never worked, but it showed he cared. Alex only kissed me once, and when he did it was complete bliss...and then the house burned down...Such a shame, but now he is back in my life again and he needs our help!"

 

[Tale_Weaver]

The Brewery 2:25am

Koln and Meredith enter the Anarch haven, as per the instructions Jack gave to them back at the Succubus Club.

You climb up the fire escape behind Daley's and jump over to the roof of the brewery. You enter through an open skylight and find yourselves in what looks like an office. Most of the area is empty save for some chairs, a desk and a table. The dust is inches thick in some places of the room. The door is wide open and you walk down a hallway leading to a flight of stairs. The stairs go down and lead to a wide open room. The room technically takes up two floors, there are three wooden vats surrounding the room with pipes and the upper reaches of the vats reaching up to what would be the 2nd floor. There are already a lot of vampires congregated here, you can't really tell how many in the dark. Some sit on old wooden kegs and some on handcarts, but most of them are perched on the pipes and rafters overlooking the room.

Most of the vampires are watching a delicate looking boy playing guitar in the corner, the boy looks no older than thirteen and has a cloud of golden blond hair. He is very good at "picking" the guitar. The rest of the crowd ranges drastically between old and young, some vampires look barely beyond their teen years while one looks like he could be a college professor. Jack is sitting on the edge of the crowd gathered around the guitar player, a young woman with shoulder length red hair sits next to him.

 

[Strider_Koln]

You climb up the fire escape behind Daley's and jump over to the roof of the brewery. You enter through an open skylight and find yourselves in what looks like an office. Most of the area is empty save for some chairs, a desk and a table. The dust is inches thick in some places of the room. The door is wide open and you walk down a hallway leading to a flight of stairs. The stairs go down and lead to a wide open room. The room technically takes up two floors, there are three wooden vats surrounding the room with pipes and the upper reaches of the vats reaching up to what would be the 2nd floor. There are already a lot of vampires congregated here, you can't really tell how many in the dark. Some sit on old wooden kegs and some on handcarts, but most of them are perched on the pipes and rafters overlooking the room.

Most of the vampires are watching a delicate looking boy playing guitar in the corner, the boy looks no older than thirteen and has a cloud of golden blond hair. He is very good at "picking" the guitar. The rest of the crowd ranges drastically between old and young, some vampires look barely beyond their teen years while one looks like he could be a college professor. Jack is sitting on the edge of the crowd gathered around the guitar player, a young woman with shoulder length red hair sits next to him.

"Ahoy and bon soir mon ami Jacque!" Father Koln warmly greets the grizzled vampire in the corner. "Tonight, you are blessed. For as Daniel, you are a prophet no? As you've said, I have appeared, and I have brought a friend. Go ahead, say 'Hallo' Green Marie... and then it may be a good idea to also say the Lord's Prayer and a Hail Mary when you can."

As Father Koln speaks, the music filling the room has a hypnotic affect on his senses. The cacophony of noise meshes and births a jaunty Pirate jingle. The notes, rhythm, and sounds all spiral again and again an maddening catchy swirly-slide... until plunging into a monstrous and damnable abyss... While Koln tries to sort his childhood memories out, perhaps it would be best if Meredith spoke up.

"Ah.. pardon' monsieur, I feel almost sea-sick..." Koln grumbles, taking off his hat and rubbing his forehead with his fingers, much like an ordinary person trying to power through a migraine.

 

[Tale_Weaver]

The Brewery 2:15am

"Ahoy and bon soir mon ami Jacque!" Father Koln warmly greets the grizzled vampire in the corner. "Tonight, you are blessed. For as Daniel, you are a prophet no? As you've said, I have appeared, and I have brought a friend. Go ahead, say 'Hallo' Green Marie... and then it may be a good idea to also say the Lord's Prayer and a Hail Mary when you can."

As Father Koln speaks, the music filling the room has a hypnotic affect on his senses. The cacophony of noise meshes and births a jaunty Pirate jingle. The notes, rhythm, and sounds all spiral again and again an maddening catchy swirly-slide... until plunging into a monstrous and damnable abyss... While Koln tries to sort his childhood memories out, perhaps it would be best if Meredith spoke up.

"Ah.. pardon' monsieur, I feel almost sea-sick..." Koln grumbles, taking off his hat and rubbing his forehead with his fingers, much like an ordinary person trying to power through a migraine.

Jack looks over at Koln and says "Ah yes, the crazy priest guy from the club. Glad to see ya made it!"

"Ah.. pardon' monsieur, I feel almost sea-sick..." Koln grumbles, taking off his hat and rubbing his forehead with his fingers, much like an ordinary person trying to power through a migraine.

Jack grabs one of the empty barrels off the floor next to him and hands it to Koln "Uh, hear ya go man, don't need ya puking your last meal out all over the floor!"

Koln promptly takes the barrel and puts it over his head.

Koln
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Your mind is filled with the jingle of pirates and and screaming. Now why is that skeleton wearing a cowboy hat?
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The girl next to Jack gestures over to Koln "What's his deal?" Jack says to Meredith "Hey, I don't believe we've met. I'm Jack. This angry rebel here is Damsel."

OOC: Yes, I did just take control of Koln there. Deal with it

 

[izillama]

Lacey laughs almost creepily and says in a dreamy voice "Alex, well...he is my butterfly. I trapped him in a net of silk and black lace. We had many great adventures together while living in his castle in France. We even saved the city and the Prince with the goldfish. And then..."

Lacey pauses for a minute and sighs "Alex wasn't like any boyfriends I ever had. When we had our dates I felt like he was talking to my face more than my chest....or was it the other way around? Anyway, you could say that he loved me for my minds. He even tried to make me whole again. Unfortunately it never worked, but it showed he cared. Alex only kissed me once, and when he did it was complete bliss...and then the house burned down...Such a shame, but now he is back in my life again and he needs our help!"

Clover looked sideways at Lacey, almost pitying her. How much of what she had just said was just made up in that twisted little mind of hers? And how much was the child of truth? She knew some Psych professors in her college who would have loved to get a hold of Lacey, if only to use her as a teaching tool!

Truthfully, she thought Lacey was a fool. Clearly from what she had seen and heard of Alex the man was a complete jack*** to to woman. Clover knew that she could be short-tempered with Lacey, much like she was the same with Koln, but Lacey had never spurred feelings of outright hatred in her. Alex...? She didn't trust him. He seemed to be a conniving, condescending...

"...womanizing, holier-than-thou, full-of-himself, blockhead, jack***..." Clover suddenly stopped herself and glanced quickly at Lacey again. She found that she had been muttering her thoughts aloud and would have blushed, embarrassed, had she been able to. She wasn't sure how much Lacey had heard, or if Lacey would even put two and two together and realize who she had been speaking about.

She tried hurriedly to cover her tracks, "I don't know, Lacey, he doesn't seem all that helplessto me. That... um... man seems to have it all under control. If something doesn't go his way? Easy! Just throw a tantrum and start a fire. He's like an oversized child with the only super soaker on the street; more than happy to show all the other kids who's got the bigger gun." Clover made a derisive noise and settled back into her seat, looking absently out the window and speaking more to herself now, "I hate guys like that. With Alex, it's fire and vanity. With others, it's money and machisimo. They all want you to worship them. Then they kick you in the gutter and get on with their cocksure lives. And it seems to me, Lacey, that Alex has already started pecking around a new barnyard in your absence."

Unable to help herself, she gave Lacey a dark, pitying look and began to mumble a song, "Old MacMeredith had a farm..."

 

[Strider_Koln]

Jack looks over at Koln and says "Ah yes, the crazy priest guy from the club. Glad to see ya made it!"

"Ah.. pardon' monsieur, I feel almost sea-sick..." Koln grumbles, taking off his hat and rubbing his forehead with his fingers, much like an ordinary person trying to power through a migraine.

Jack grabs one of the empty barrels off the floor next to him and hands it to Koln "Uh, hear ya go man, don't need ya puking your last meal out all over the floor!"

Koln promptly takes the barrel and puts it over his head.

Koln
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Your mind is filled with the jingle of pirates and and screaming. Now why is that skeleton wearing a cowboy hat?
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The girl next to Jack gestures over to Koln "What's his deal?" Jack says to Meredith "Hey, I don't believe we've met. I'm Jack. This angry rebel here is Damsel."

OOC: Yes, I did just take control of Koln there. Deal with it

[SBLOCK]

OOC: I Hate you. Hope you know this. [CLUE]I also hope you know that it is NOT a Cowboy hat that the deadman wore... [/CLUE]

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Koln promptly takes the barrel off at Jack's words.

"Sacre bleu! A damned soul you say?" The priest asks, perhaps mishearing "Damsel" for "Damned Soul."

"Well mon ami, we are all damned... some more than others." Koln mutters that last part under his breath, painfully remembering Ruby. "But I have not given up my faith. I will continue to make war against Satan and all his minions, and hunt ze red bastard across this entire country if I must! Along with my companions in God, isn't that true Green Marie?"

 

[Tale_Weaver]

The Brewery 2:15am

[SBLOCK]

OOC: I Hate you. Hope you know this. [CLUE]I also hope you know that it is NOT a Cowboy hat that the deadman wore... [/CLUE]

[/sblock]

Koln promptly takes the barrel off at Jack's words.

"Sacre bleu! A damned soul you say?" The priest asks, perhaps mishearing "Damsel" for "Damned Soul."

"Well mon ami, we are all damned... some more than others." Koln mutters that last part under his breath, painfully remembering Ruby. "But I have not given up my faith. I will continue to make war against Satan and all his minions, and hunt ze red bastard across this entire country if I must! Along with my companions in God, isn't that true Green Marie?"

Jack lets out a roaring laugh, "Man, you really ARE ed up! Although I have a feeling you picked up that whole priest bit long before you were turned. I almost feel sorry for ya...almost. It's all good though, you'll meet all kinds of people in this town."

OOC: I know he doesn't wear a cowboy hat but that's what Koln sees.

 

[Tale_Weaver]

Downtown Los Angeles 2:15am

She tried hurriedly to cover her tracks, "I don't know, Lacey, he doesn't seem all that helplessto me. That... um... man seems to have it all under control. If something doesn't go his way? Easy! Just throw a tantrum and start a fire. He's like an oversized child with the only super soaker on the street; more than happy to show all the other kids who's got the bigger gun." Clover made a derisive noise and settled back into her seat, looking absently out the window and speaking more to herself now, "I hate guys like that. With Alex, it's fire and vanity. With others, it's money and machisimo. They all want you to worship them. Then they kick you in the gutter and get on with their cocksure lives. And it seems to me, Lacey, that Alex has already started pecking around a new barnyard in your absence."

Unable to help herself, she gave Lacey a dark, pitying look and began to mumble a song, "Old MacMeredith had a farm..."

Lacey turns to Clover and shouts "Bite your tongue! Where are these pecking chickens! WHERE!! I will drain them dry so that they will never enter my love life again!"

Just then there is a loud thump and a man in a brown trench coat goes rolling over the hood from the driver's side.

Lacey stops the car and says "Did you see that! That guy hit my truck! The nerve!"

 

[ladymermaid]

Jack lets out a roaring laugh, "Man, you really ARE ed up! Although I have a feeling you picked up that whole priest bit long before you were turned. I almost feel sorry for ya...almost. It's all good though, you'll meet all kinds of people in this town."

OOC: I know he doesn't wear a cowboy hat but that's what Koln sees.

Meredith gives Jack an annoyed look, not too happy that he seems to be making fun of Koln, trying to turn the conversation back to the matter at hand she speaks to Jack, "My names Meredith, I figured I'd tag along with Koln and see what this was all about. It can be good to meet new people and all."

Meredith puts her hand on Koln's shoulder, concerned for his well being because he really does look like he has a head ache...do vampires get head aches, I don't re-call having one since I turned..."You Ok Koln?"