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Post by Chrysophylax on Oct 14, 2007 19:33:41 GMT 9.5
"This isn't so bad," Chrysophylax thought, serving drinks to a customer chilling at the table, close to the entrance door of the Inn. It was more like a bar then an Inn with wooden tables spread across an open space accompanied by three or four chairs and stools set along the bar. The bartender was wiping a glass cup with a ragged cloth, happily enjoying a conversation with one of his frequent customer.
"Hey you! Over here. Now,' Malace the Inn keep grunted over the doorway leading to the rooms, signaling Chrys to come over.
Chrys, with a curious expression, walked over to the doorway and was again, rudely shoved deeper into the dimly lit room after she entered the doorway, "Hey! Can you please te--"
"Tell me about yourself." Malace interrupted, crossing his phat hairy arms.
Chrysophylax was slightly taken back at the sudden question in the current situation and remained silent.
"It's courtesy to know my co-worker. Right?" he replied with a smile that almost looked more like a smug.
"Well," Chrysophylax thought for a moment, "I suppose you're right."
Chrys then began summarising her life in less than ten minutes while Malace was absent-mindedly nodding.
"So... you know nothing about Lyte then?" Malace queried, eye brows raised in suprise.
"Uhh, not really. No."
Malace's suprise instantly turned into happiness with a smile that seemed almost unnatural, "Well let me fill you in on the customs then." faking an intimate, one-armed embrace, "You see. It's customary to be tested when you get a job. So I'll have to test you."
"Okay." Chrys nodded, listening to his words intently, not wanting to be a foreigner.
"Now," Malace again shoved Chrys in a position she could see the entrance of the Inn, "The first person that comes through that door. I want you to take anything that's valuable from him without knowing."
Chrysophylax was a little skeptical but continued nodding.
"Now you might think this is stealing but really," a slight pause, "it's a common test to show loyalty!" Malace was practically showing all his teeth in his 'smile'.
"So I steal things like this?" Chrysophylax pulled out a small brown bag tied with string.
"Exactly," assuming the bag contained coins but closer observation lead him to figured that it was his money bag, "Hey! Give that back!" Malace snatched it back and held it, "Ooh, you're good. Now go and do your test."
"Alright then." Chrysophylax took a step when,
"Oh and," Malace walked behind Chrys and ripped half the work dress that covered her tail.
"What are you doing?!"
"Dress code. Now hurry along."
As soon as Chrys left, rather angered at the torn dress, Malace began snickered. What he was really planning is to humiliate and undermine the Illdemins and to put a scratch in her clean record.
[OoC: Hurrah! My first RP post! You can post whatever you like, I don't care!  ]
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Post by Scraverx on Oct 15, 2007 17:28:52 GMT 9.5
[Joining with Karel, he should make this interesting ] As Chrys returned from the back room, or where ever the conversation with the owner had happened, she might have noticed a small boy standing in the street just outside. The boy continued to watch from outside, though just what he was watching would be hard to tell as his long hair was hiding his face. The boy stayed out in the street, did he know something or was he just nervous about entering. Eventually the boy lifted a hand towards his face and started nibbling on his finger tip. Other that that he didn't move or make a sound. |
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Post by Chrysophylax on Oct 18, 2007 19:45:28 GMT 9.5
The quiet room allowed Chrys to calm down about her torn dress, which revealed half her tail, and continued working. Customers were suddenly being lax and instead, giving off looks that Chrys could not describe as to what emotion was being expressed. Deciding to fix any unmade sheets in the rooms Chrys headed towards them but paused to noticed a boy outside. What he was looking at, she was unable to tell because of his long hair that covered his eyes and most of his face(?). Looking only for a brief moment Chrys pulled her eyes away and went to accomplish her chore.
After she came back, she saw the boy again, still standing there. He hadn't moved till she last saw him which was quite a while ago. Deciding to be generous she walked out into the streets, clinging close to the doorway, she called out to the boy,
"Hey! Are you alright there?" she waved, trying to grab his attention.
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Post by Scraverx on Oct 18, 2007 23:28:06 GMT 9.5
The boy lifted his head slightly, but not enough for Chrys to see his face well unless she crouched to his level. He stopped nibbling his finger quite suddenly and let his hand fall to his side. The boy then smiled a little as he nodded his head in a rather vigorous yes.
He then shifted his weight, leaning to one side slightly to look around Chrys and into the Inn.
He seemed to be watching or waiting for someone but he didn't give any verbal reply to Chrys' question. He could also have been trying to get a look at her tail, although that would have meant he somehow knew she had one.
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Post by Chrysophylax on Oct 19, 2007 0:20:03 GMT 9.5
The boy nodded to comply that he was alright. He leaned his head to the side as if to look past Chrys and into the Inn. Chrys, who took notice of his gesture, assumed he was waiting for someone so she turned to check for Malace. Clearly busy with his duties, Chrys walked into the streets and bent down to his level with a smile upon her face,
"Hey. If you're waiting for someone, why don't you wait inside? The people there will take good care of you." she suggested with a slight chuckle, her tail wagging quite exuberantly.
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Post by Scraverx on Oct 19, 2007 20:43:04 GMT 9.5
The boy shook his head from side to side, as clear a no as his nod had been a yes.
"N-nuh... No!" He stammered almost shouting in the end to get the simple word out. Which then meant he blushed shyly and looked down at the ground. "C-c-ca... C-can't." That word he managed to get out a little more quietly then the no a few minutes earlier.
The boy then looked around her again but this time he'd clearly noticed her tail because he grinned rather happily and giggled while he pointed at it. "Ya-ya-you g-g-guh... guh-got... t... tail."
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Post by Chrysophylax on Oct 19, 2007 21:53:51 GMT 9.5
"No!" Karel shouted, causing Chrys to slightly flinch but unfazed none-the-less. Chrys was about to ask why he couldn't come inside when he pointed out her tail. Chrys looked behind to see her black portable feather duster dangling between her legs,
"Oh. It's a real tail to, heh," she laughed, shaking her tail. "Anyway," she looked back at him, "I'm Maddy. What's your name?"
"Maddy!! What are you doing?! I don't pay you to stand around doing nothing," Malace shouted standing outside the doorway with his arms crossed in annoyance.
Chrys turned to look and made a face that suggested she was going to scream back but she turned towards Karel, "Sorry there but I have to go do some things. It was nice meeting you but if you never need something, I'll be inside." Chrys turned and walked inside. Malace looked at the boy before he also followed Chrys back into the Inn.
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Post by Scraverx on Oct 19, 2007 22:14:09 GMT 9.5
Karel glared at Malace his hands curling into tight little fists and he stared at the Inn Keeper for a few minutes before the man followed Maddy back inside. The boy moved a few steps closer to the door after Malace was back inside but he still didn't enter the Inn.
As the Inn Keeper crossed the room a clearly drunk man, most likely a regular, suddenly lurched half out his chair at a table. The lurching movement caused the table to tilt slightly scattering empty pitchers across the floor. It also resulted in the drunk sloshing his almost full pitcher of Ale into Malace's face and down the front of the Inn Keeper's clothes.
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Post by Chrysophylax on Oct 19, 2007 22:42:29 GMT 9.5
Chrys moaned sadly as she walked back into her oppresive workplace. She walked past a customer who had gotten himself drunk, with many cups withs infront of him. Slightly sickened by his site she kept walking to the barkeep for some jobs when there was a shifting movement sound and a mans angst cry followed immediatly after.
"Uugh!" Malace cried out as ale sprayed his face and drenching his clothes. He wiped his face and flicked off some ale. He started walking towards his room for a spare change in clothing before stopping, "Maddy. Kick the bafoon into the streets." he instructed plainly and resuming his walk to his room with ale dripping on his short hair.
"Kick?" she questioned, unsure if she had to literally kick him out. Not daring to disobey she walked beside the fallen drunkard and poked him on the face, "Sir? Are you awake?" no answer. Chrys had no choice but to put him outside so she placed her arms under his armpits and dragged him outside, ignoring the continous stares of other people who could possibly be partially drunk.
Chrys was went just past the doorway with the arduous task when she met the same boy, seen earlier, closer to the door, "Oh hey. This isn't what it looks. I'm just helping him get some fresh air." she said innocently. Leaving the dozing body to lie beside the doorway she went back to the boy and bent down to his level, "Now, what was your name again?" she said with the same cheerful smile.
Customers were suddenly neglecting to do anything and no one was coming as people were giving off strange looks, the same made by the ones inside the inn but Chrys took no notice of this, her tail happily moving.
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Post by Scraverx on Oct 20, 2007 0:01:30 GMT 9.5
"K-Ka-Ka... Kar-Kar... Karel" The boy stammered but grinned proudly when he actually managed to say his name. He then held out one hand palm up. "C-c-c... Cr-cross m-my p-p-p... pa-pa... palm w-wh-whi... with c-c-cop... cop-copper a-ah... and I'll t-t-t... tell yuh-you a ss-see... a ss-see... secret." It took the boy a good few minutes to get that out and he grinned proudly once he actually managed it.
What ever this secret might be, seemed it would take a while for Karel to tell it. Probably more time then it would take for Maddy's boss to change his clothes after having Ale tipped over him.
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Post by Chrysophylax on Oct 20, 2007 17:26:13 GMT 9.5
He spoke with a severe stutter that made it hard to understand but Chrys continued to smile, "Karel is it? That's a nice name." Chrys wanted to help this boy overcome his shyness until he spoke again.
'Copper? Isn't that a brown metal? Chrys recalled, confused where how she would have copper on her hands until something snapped into her mind, 'Does he mean a copper coin?'
Taking out a single copper coin from one of her pockets she showed it him, "This?"
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Post by Scraverx on Oct 21, 2007 0:35:38 GMT 9.5
Karel nodded his head a few times when Chrys repeated his name.
Then when she took out the copper coin he then smiled and nodded. "Y-ye-yes." He then drew a cross on the palm of his extended hand with a finger and pointed at the coin Chrys held. He then pointed at Chrys, then the coin and once more drew a cross on his palm.
At the same time as he did this, Chrys would see a clear image in her mind of her making a cross on his palm with the coin and him taking it. Something the Iledemin might find a little, unusual or perhaps a little discomforting because it wasn't a thought of her own.
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Post by Chrysophylax on Oct 21, 2007 1:04:01 GMT 9.5
Chrys watched with interested as he did a formation on his palm. Just as he did so, Chrys began to feel lightheaded and dizzy. Everything whitened out and another image faded in. Chrys saw herself doing the same cross, Karel had done and then the envisage blackened out till Chrys opened her, somehow closed eyes, "Wow. That was magic wasn't it?" saying the first thing that came to her mind, "I can do some to." she said with a smile. Chrys lifted her hand and snapped her fingers. A tiny flicker of flames scintillated for a brief moment before disappearing as hot air, "I'm not that good with magic."
A customer left the inn and Malace returned with a new attire. He immediatly noticed Chrys and Karel together through the window and made sour face. Walking to the doorway and facing Chrys, "Get back in here. If you keep lounging about I'll have to fire. You still haven't proven your legibility of your job yet, either." Malace explained, placing emphasis on the last sentence.
Chrys was happily talking with Karel until Malace came back and the happy face was wiped with a dreary one. Giving Karel a second glance she went back inside, yet again while Malace was staring at Karel with stern eyes that that was set to peirce the skin with fear...Somehow it messed up because Malace is chubby and thinks his cool.
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Post by Scraverx on Oct 21, 2007 1:56:23 GMT 9.5
Karel shook his head a bit and a voice came to Maddy's mind ~No, well not really magic.~ He smiled when she made the little flame. ~Not magic like you can do.~ Said the voice in Maddy's mind. It was the kind of voice someone would expect a small boy to have, soft and slightly high but with a strange sense of strength to it - though not loud or intimidating. When Malace made a reappearance, Karel looked at him for a moment but quickly looked down. ~Sorry if I'm getting you in trouble Maddy,~ said the voice in her head, ~but your boss is 'bad'. He's trying to get people angry at you by telling you to steal.~ When Malace stared at Karel after Maddy went back inside the boy looked up, almost meeting the stern look the chubby inn keeper was trying to scare him with. The attempt at being scary was further messed up when Karel made the slightest of gestures with one hand. Malace's belt came undone of it's own accord and then his pants fell around his ankles as though pulled down very hard. When the man bent to retrieve his pants a pitcher lifted from a nearby table, as though lifted by an invisible hand, floated across the room then tipped pouring it's contents over the inn keeper's head. [It's really not Malace's day.  ] |
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Post by Chrysophylax on Oct 25, 2007 22:51:23 GMT 9.5
A telepathic voice echoed in Chrys's mind as Karel mentally spoke, a voice that chimed sweetly on a windy day. It was serene, tranquil and pleasing to hear. Chrys was suprised. No longer was Karel stuttering severely when he spoke, but a clear sharp voice shattered the self made image of a shy boy, 'Sorry if I'm getting you in trouble Maddy.'
Chrys stopped and faced Karel with her mouth open to reply but was indignantly shoved, yet again, back into the Inn by Malace, who kept constant eye contact with Karel.
The towering man, as if protecting a treasured home, took a step towards the innucuous figure. Karel hidden behind his facial mask made unnoticeable hand movements with fluency, like water, then Malace's buckle undid itself. The pants was pulled down and somewhere not to far off, a hovering jug of water was steadily wafting through the air towards Malace, who was already trying to pul up his pants, "Gehhhagh!!" Malace moaned as the floating pitcher tipped sideways and poured water all over his head.
"Mal?"
Chrys had returned. Hearing the groan was more than enough to send her over, with looks of concern that Karel might have been injured,
"Don't call me Mal, you dog. Just get this kid away from me and my home!" and Mal went back inside trying to lift his pants up leaving a confused Chrys and Karel behind. The remaining customers looked with mixed feelings then went back to their food as if this was daily entertainment.
Chrys went over to Karel and bent down to his level, "I'm so sorry you had to go through that." she apologised while checking Karel if he was okay like a motherly figure, "But thanks. I'm sure Mal would have his reasons, wanting me to steal. I'll confront him later about it." she smiled.
Chrys didn't realise it but deep down she wanted to protect this boy, become his friend, learn things about each other.
"So Karel. If you know about this place, be my guide for the day?"
The End?
[OoC] Hope I'm not god modding/power playing in this post. And is my description of your character okay? (The voice and your psycho abilities... xD)
And on another note I don't get to steal! T__T;; I'll be in for it later though. So it's all good.
And if you want to keep going, by all means post!
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