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#Post#: 45--------------------------------------------------
The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: Evil Squeegee
Date: November 30, 2024, 6:53 pm
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[center]Eve Solomon
Your first impression’s got to be your very best
I see you're full of shit and that's alright
That's how you play, I guess you get through every
night[/center]
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3:00 AM.
Las Vegas.
Gamble. Drink. Whore it up. Lives are made here, lives are
ruined here. It’s a city of sin, a city of glamour (in the
classic sense, not the changeling sense -- but that too,
really.)
It’s unusually quiet in this casino parking lot. There aren’t
many cars parked here, either. Whatever Catherine is doing here,
she manages to catch sight of a curious vision:
A Dark Stranger. Collar popped up, hat pulled down. Hard to see
their features… or anything, really. It’s just a darkened,
clothed shape moving through the shadows.
The figure isn’t alone, though. It’s gloved hands grip the
ankles of an unconscious young woman, which the figure is
dragging across the parking lot to a running van, where a driver
is waiting, the engine already going and the door already
opening.
Catherine is watching a kidnapping in action!
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Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: BIGDoor82
Date: November 30, 2024, 7:05 pm
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Thud...Crack...Thud...CRACK...THUD...SMASH!.
The wall of the alley shakes, glows blue, then seemingly
explodes as a massive brown furring, slightly singed, create
flies out. A moment later a a nine foot tall blonde woman in
armor, with hair cut short, and wielding a giant flaming sword
steps out and roars at the fallen minotaur. Glamour floods the
alley, enchanting anyone there...
I do notice the kidnapping, and I immidiately turn toward it. My
honor as a knight will not allow me to let this happen.
Celebrating my escape from the labyrinth can wait...
"Unhand the girl." I say simply, but with righteous fury in my
eyes...
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Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: Evil Squeegee
Date: November 30, 2024, 7:14 pm
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[center]Eve Solomon
Your first impression’s got to be your very best
I see you're full of shit and that's alright
That's how you play, I guess you get through every
night[/center]
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“Shit!”
The van peels out of the parking space it’s in, and rushes out
toward the dark road, where the shadows are only occasionally
cut through by street-lamps.
This leaves the figure that’s dragging the girl alone. It stops,
and repeats the curse that the driver shouted.
“You’re supposed to be in Ireland! The fuck you doing in Vegas!?
Goddamnit!”
And with that, the figure promptly drops the unconscious redhead
and…
…melts?
Shadows spill across the ground out of the ankles of it’s pants,
and scatter in every direction. The clothes crumple to the
ground as if the body they were wearing had suddenly vanished
into thin air. Whatever person -- or thing -- was in those
clothes, is now gone, leaving Catherine alone with the
unconscious girl.
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Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: BIGDoor82
Date: November 30, 2024, 7:18 pm
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[center]Catherine Templeton
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I've been trapped in the Dreaming for a long time now. Nothing
surprises me anymore really. It is interesting however. I'll
have to ask the girl about it when she wakes. I sheathe my
sword, and kneel down next to her. I gently pat her face.
"Awaken, my lady. Your captors have fled." I say, trying to
rouse her, without harming her...
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Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: Evil Squeegee
Date: November 30, 2024, 7:32 pm
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[center]Eve Solomon
Your first impression’s got to be your very best
I see you're full of shit and that's alright
That's how you play, I guess you get through every
night[/center]
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((According to Jim’s rolls, as requested in PMs…))
The girl doesn’t respond. She is stunningly beautiful, though.
And, other than having recently been dragged across a parking
lot, she’s impeccably dressed. Her makeup - a nightlook - is
well done. She’s still wearing expensive jewelry and clothing.
Either she was here to blow half a city’s worth of cash on
gambling, or she was an employee.
That’s not the important part, though. The important part is
that she’s fae-kin. And that ring on her right ring finger is
literally thrumming, in the sixth sense kind of way, with magic.
And then suddenly, the girl reaches up and slaps herself. Very
hard. Right across the face, with her right hand. She slaps
herself so hard her body rolls over just a little bit.
A moment passes.
And then the entire right arm just shrugs, as if giving up, and
she slumps back into (apparent) unconsciousness.
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Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: BIGDoor82
Date: November 30, 2024, 7:42 pm
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Kinain. Must be fate. Kinain with a magic ring no less. When her
shoulder shrugs, I shrug back... "Fear not, my lady. I will take
care of you until you're capable taking care of yourself." Is it
an oath? Well, considering the air is filled with glamour at the
moment, the Dreaming might assume so, so I will be treating it
as such. I reach down, and lift her onto my shoulder. I do
notice her beauty, but there are more important things to worry
about.
I look around to get my bearings... It seems we're in...
Vegas...I wasn't expecting that... Once I have the lady secured
over my shoulder I stand, and make my way out of the alley. I do
make sure to find any handbag she may have had. I need to find a
safe place...I've never been in Vegas before... Hopefully she
will wake up soon...for now I look for a bench, in the open, to
set her down on and continue trying to wake her
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Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: Evil Squeegee
Date: November 30, 2024, 7:48 pm
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[center]Eve Solomon
Your first impression’s got to be your very best
I see you're full of shit and that's alright
That's how you play, I guess you get through every
night[/center]
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There is no handbag to be found.
The closest thing to a seat is the bus-stop at the edge of the
parking lot. The girl’s body slumps down into a chair, and her
right hand moves up to run through her hair and straighten her
shirt, as if she was primping to look her best despite her head
lolling to one side.
Slapping the girl doesn’t work. What could possibly be wrong
with her?
((Catherine botches an Int + Medicine check!))
Obviously the answer is that she’s been poisoned. Kidnappers do
that, right?
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Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: BIGDoor82
Date: November 30, 2024, 7:59 pm
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Poison...only one thing to do about that...I inhale deeply as I
get to my feet, I set my feet, exhale, inhale once more, even
more deeply, then RELEASE THE DRAGON'S PURIFYING FLAMES! I bath
the girl in the blue flames of my inner dragon. Once done, I
look her over for a moment. "Are you ready to wake now?" I ask,
hoping for an answer...
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Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: Evil Squeegee
Date: November 30, 2024, 8:09 pm
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[center]Eve Solomon
Your first impression’s got to be your very best
I see you're full of shit and that's alright
That's how you play, I guess you get through every
night[/center]
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((Ironically… this works for reasons Cathrine has no idea about,
lmao.))
My eyes flutter open and vision comes back to me. I groan and my
left hand shoots up to cradle my temple.
“God, my head…”
Next, I hold my jaw. “Ow.” Did someone… punch me?
“What… what happe--...?”
Mid-sentence, I notice I’m not alone. I see feet on the ground.
My eyes then follow those feet upward, along what appear to be
big blue legs. And then further up, it turns out there’s a whole
blue person attached to those feet.
“Are… are you cold?”
Don’t look at me that way.
OH WAIT IS THAT A TROLL? Normally I have to use magic to see
them all big and blue--
“I mean, uh. Who… what? When?” I look around. “Where?”
Pause.
“Why?”
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Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: BIGDoor82
Date: November 30, 2024, 8:18 pm
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"Your magic ring made your arm slap you a couple times, after my
gentler approach did not work. When I realized you were poisoned
I unleashed the dragon's purifying flames." I say, rather proud
of myself. I look down at myself when she asks if I'm
cold...We're in a desert..."No? We're in a desert..." At
night...because I've never been in a desert, and I don't know
they're colder at night...
"I'm Katherine Dragon's-Fury. I rescued you from some
kidnappers. I'm oathed to protect you until you can protect
yourself." Remember, I'm treating like a real oath until
something shows me it's not. "I'm a temple knight, and this I
think is Las Vegas. As for why? I do not know." I tell her,
trying to answer the questions she seems to have...
"Do you need anything, my lady?" I ask, kneeling so she can
better see my face. My irises are not blue. They're like ice
crystals, white and seemingly shiny. "Do you have a place to
go?" Not that I could offer her that...
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