In-between posts (a random semi OOC RP)

[Tayuu]

Tayuu raised a fist in the air; “I lay claim to this thread and all who post in it!”
“Even the NPCs?” pondered Sirius, the wolf that was mentioned in a couple of Tayuu’s main RP posts simply in the hope of at least vaguely explaining the bizarre thought processes of a manic cat.
“Even, as you say, the NPCs,” replied Tayuu in a very Ford Prefect-like manner.
“See you later Tatty,” sighed Sirius exiting stage right.
“Awww,” whined Tayuu, knowing full well his friend was off to a much more serious thread and would therefore not be his slave and would therefore not buy him any cheesecake.
Tayuu sat on a chair at a table of the ‘In-between posts bar’ and shrugged to himself while glancing at his glass of Pepsi; “I guess I don’t HAVE to lay claim to whoever enters the thread.”
He paused there and looked around, his last line was SURELY an opener for another bored player character to appear.

[CC]

In a corner of the bar a darkness emanates from the inky black shadows and a sense of dread flickers out in the bar. Out of the blackness teps the demonic figure of the Shadow Queen herself... her once finely furred lemur form now distorted by the evil of Syntaru, leaving no more fur behind, instead, a leathery, scaly-type skin covers her entirely. The smoothness of it is broken only by the spikes that protrude outwards on her arms and legs. Large black wings are folded around her body and almost clasped at the front by two hooked talons. Her long tail swishes back and forth irritably a few times before she takes a step towards the counter, red eyes boring directly into Tayuu's back as she sizes up the feline in front of her.

Her sharp-clawed feet make an odd clicking sound upon the wooden floor as she walks closer and closer and a shiver runs up the cat's spine as the pure evilness rolls over him, making him almost faint with the feeling that near overwhelms him, the very fur upon his neck standing straight up.

She makes no sound until she plops herself upon the seat next to Tayuu and looks up at the bartender, eyes flaring and even deeper red as she speaks, "Bloody Mary and make it strong..." She slowly slides her gaze to the right, where the young boy sits, "I tell you, I am SO glad this place has bar stools! You have no idea how difficult it is to find a seat when you have wings!"

[Tayuu]

Tayuu began to regret leaving his 'opening' line in the first post. He shook with nervousness and fear as his eyes gazed to his left; “Ye… yeah, I, I don’t have wings myself but it, it sure must be troublesome.”
The cat realized how much he was stuttering and so mentally switched gears. He grinned widely but nervously to her in the hope he’d show her that he wasn’t afraid. He was a little worried in case she got offended. Just because she was emitting a great air of evil and dread, didn’t mean she wasn’t a good person... right? He decided to get to know her first before judging.
The bartender slowly creeps back in the picture, places the Bloody Mary on the bar top and then slinks away, quickly adding; “No charge ma’am.”
There is silence for a moment and Tayuu decided to break the ice; “Hi by the way, I’m Tayuu…”
He then raised a green and white foil bag towards her; “Salt and vinegar crisp?”

[CC]

Tala says nothing as she extends a dark and formidible clawed paw towards her drink, eyes closed for a moment as she tuips it back and takes a long sip. She nods to the bartender and then places the bloody mary down, "Surprisingly good considering it does not actually have any blood in it, false advertising if you ask me."

She chuckles darkly and then raises what would have been an eyebrow if she had any fur left, instead, one of her eyes just gets a little larger as she looks towards to bag of crisps that is being offerred. She licks her lips and smiles, showing sharp fangs, "Thank you kind Tayuu, it is most, it is difficult to come across a good crisp when in the Shadows and hiding from the forces of the evil Aurora who was cast down by my lord. In fact, I would kill for these on a good day!"

She grins and winks at the cat as she takes a few crisps carefully within her paw, but it is not bound to make him feel any better for there is something about this dark creature that told him that she was not lying.

[Tayuu]

Tayuu nervously laughed as if she had told a joke.
…..
The catboy suddenly slammed his paw on the bar, his eyes locked onto the bartender’s with intensity and urgency; “Bartender, a packet of crisps for the lady, and another Bloody Mary, um, make that two… I need a stiff drink. Put it on my tab.”
The bartender generously placed six packets of crisps in front of them both (one of each flavour) along with a quick ‘i’m scared too’ glance towards Tayuu, before starting work on another two drinks.
Tayuu watched the bartender intently, not daring to turn to Tala; “More vodka man, more vodka!”
The feline decided that perhaps getting blind drunk would be a magnificent idea right now.
Although the Shadow Queen hadn’t quite finished her first drink, another was another lined up in waiting as Tayuu began on his own. Tayuu had never had a Bloody Mary before.
His exact words were; “Gehgarhleelookka!”
He then hoped to Aurora that someone else would come in to take attention away from himself. The surrounding NPCs had mostly all quickly left the room or at least shrunk back into the far corners.
In the meantime he decided to keep the ‘conversation’ going with the hope that it would distract her from the though of killing; “So, um, ma’am, how’s your day been today?”

[CC]

Taking another sip of her drink she looks over at the feline with an interested expression upon her face, she stares into his eyes - absolutely no feeling or expression registering in her face as she seems to study his very soul. After a bit she breaks the eerie contact with him and smiles darkly, "Thank you for the drink..." she pauses to take another sip and the continues, her voice actually showing a bit of frustration and tiredness that does not register upon the rest of her body, "To be truthful Tayuu, my day has been absolutely horrible. In fact, all of my days for the past while have been terrible! Nothing like the glory days of when Syntaru was rising and I could be an active part of the story line. Now they have me sitting in some dark, dank cave somewhere - not that I mind dark, dank caves - but I am in there with only the Shadow Creatures to play with and really, have you ever tried to play with one of them? There is not much going on with most of them in the whole intelligence area and if I was to summon some of the Walkers they always want something to do. I mean, really, they are just minions after all. So I sit and wait for these silly "heroes" to get moving and posting until I can gather enough information to make my glorious comeback. And of course bring back my dear, honourable and strong Lord Syntaru!"

There is vehemence in her voice and when she ends her rant her eyes are bright and a faint black mist has formed around her but when she takes a deep breath and another sip of her drink the eyes seem to dim a bit and the mist fades, though there is still a feeling of immense darkness in the entire bar. "Not only that, but here I am all strong and powerful and having to just bide my time... i can't even play with my newfound powers! I tell you, this is just not a good time in the story to be a Shadow Queen! And you, you are new, you are not one of the heathens who fought against my Lord and yet I do sense a sickly goodness within you, really too bad. Nothing like that Stealth character, now HE is someone i would love to play a bit more with. So tasty and dark!" She grins, slightly distracted for a moment by thoughts of the fox but she again regains composure and glances over at the feline, "You must have a fair bit of energy to not only be posting regularly but also to come in here for a drink... or are you perhaps neglecting other things? Perhaps you are drawn in here for a reason..."

She leaves it open, inquiring lightly without directly asking a question, not wanting to show that she is quite curious to learn more about the cat.

(ooc- hmm, can you be even more ooc in an ooc bar? Anyways, you should be proud, this is the most talkative Tala has EVER been! heh, aren't you lucky!
^o.-^ )

[Tayuu]

‘Lord Syntaru?’ thought Tayuu, ‘Oh dear yig… why do all the nutters sit next to me? Thing is though, I don’t think she’s lying, I mean… come on.’
Tayuu risked another quick glance at her – yep, dark, evil, evil and dark… bit spiky too.
He wasn’t really sure what he could say in this situation. Actually he was afraid of getting his head bitten of (literally) and so kept quiet and simply continued to listen after she took another sip of her drink.

After her second burst of woes, Tayuu came over all puzzled; “I have sickly goodness inside me? Really? Not sure what to make of that...”
He then picked up on Stealth’s name, quickly took out a PDA that he stole moments before entering the bar, and looked up his character sheet using the local wireless internet.
“Oh him,” replied Tayuu, “erm… I guess, he’s… um… tasty?”

Tayuu’s face then beamed bright at the Shadow Queen’s questioning; “Yep, yep! I got loadsa energy, gotta keep up with all the talent round here. I’m also here just chilling while waiting for the normal plot to continue… Though, between you and me, I think very soon I’ll have trouble posting as regularly. I won’t disappear, but my player is getting dumped on at work recently. It was an effort even getting this posted today. Been working on it for a few days… Feh, silly human, he shouldn’t have worked so fast and well in the past.”

Tayuu then panicked; “Holy monkey! Did you just OOC in an OOC area?”
There was a sudden fracture in space-time.
Tayuu looked over to the other side of the bar, he swore someone just said something. That was when Stealth had posted and then deleted his post. The fracture in space-time suddenly became visible about two metres away from the bar and cracked in the air. A small piece dropping and shattering on the floor to reveal a dark nothingness.

Tayuu pointed at the anomaly; “Is that going to be a problem?”

[CC]

Tala looks at the strange little piece of dark nothingness that is laying in the middle of the bar floor and shrugs, "Not too sure about that actually. I do not think that it will be a huge problem... just sweep it into the fireplace! I wonder if you can sweep it"

And yes, I was looking forward to having a nice little chat with Mr.Stealth but he decided to take his post away, quite unfortunate. My player does know the reasons though and apparently she has quite high hopes that he will post again sometime soon."

The demonic lemur turns away from the dark nothingness on the floor, no longer concerned about it, or pretending to not be concerned about it, and finishes her drink. Taking a deep and calming breath she looks around and sighs, "seems to be quite quiet in here, where is everyone?"

[Stealth Greyblade]

A cough could be heard in the corner as two bright icy blue eyes stared atthe shaow queen form well...the shadows."I didnt leave...I just dotn feel like talking to some lemur that fell into the ugly pit toots. geeze whath ahppend get walloped by the ugly stick?"he said with adark laugh."And what perchance makes me so intresting? that unlike the other hero doofuses I can use shadow energy..or the fact I dont trust them..and theur happily ever afters.."

[CC]

The demonic lemur looks over her shoulder and smiles slightly as she gazes upon the visage of the fox sitting by himself. She swings herself around on her stool so that her back is facing the bar, drink still in hand and raises it in toast to him before taking a sip. The lemur ignores his harsher words towards her appearance, seeming to not take notice of it at all and instead closes her eyes as she enjoys her drink. After she swallows, Tala reopens her eyes and speaks, her voice smooth and feminine but cold, "Ah, you are still here. That is quite fortunate, I was hoping to have some time to parley with you... as to my interest in you - it is the darkness that boils underneath your fur. Yes, you have shadow abilities and that alone is interesting for one who fought for the Goddess, but there is something else - your bitterness... that which teems forth even though you no longer need to properly be in character within these walls. Your unhappiness and need... and the knowledge that you cannot get it from your goody good so-called friends."

She laughs then, eyes shining in mirth and takes another sip of her drink, "So wonderful really! Such a loner, so unhappy, makes my insides quiver with the possibilities. but we shall leave that for the moment, what brings you in here this fine evening?"

[Lucian]

Off in the corner some machinery clicked on. The whirl of a fan, the sound of a computer booting up, and a pair of functioning red lights heralded the the progress of a mechanical mechanism starting up. Normally not such an unusual thing, but the machine in question removed it's shoud enough to reveal an arm that might have once belonged to a living being now remade into deadly metal.

More unusual still when it spoke and ordered a drink, Request: One Rum and Coke Perveyor of Alcoholic Consumables. Statement: Remove the necessary funds plus 25% tip from the usual account."

[CC]

Tala takes her attention away from Stealth for a moment, or rather, it is grabbed ahold of by the interruption of a mechanical voice from the corner where just a few minutes before there had seemingly been no one. She frowns for a moment and scans the area, surprise registering on her face for the barest of moments as she realizes that someone, or rather, something is indeed there and had previously escaped her notice, "I must be losing my touch... or it is this intriguing establishment, but I had not previously noticed you there, in the corner. Might I enquire as to who you are and what brings you here this fine, cool evening?"

The lemur stretches her legs out and then crosses one over the ot her, looking at the thing in the corner with interest barely being hidden in her normally cool and uncaring eyes.

[Lucian]

The mechanical beings shroud falls all the way off, it was obviously one of the many species of hedgehog found on the planet mobius or rather used to be. Glad up and down in metal this was nothing more than a robian. An odd sight when years ago Robotnik had been "defeated" at last and Sonic had in one of the many dimension, finally reroboticized everyone. But this model looked far older, arcane sketches were etched into the cool dark blue metal, and small sparks and lines of power coarsed through this construct of lifeless rock instead of electrical wires.

Gazing directly at the creature Tala knew this was a gollem, a hold over from a previous age used as a weapon of mass destruction, specializing in search, destroy, and leave no trace missions. Her darkness enhanced memories of her demonic bond triggered faint recollections of these once mighty watchdogs of the long since dead vampiric race that ruled the mobian surface millenia ago. Creatures born of magic, that fed on undeath and showed no mercy. This one however, seemed far more practical in it's current state. For one, it wasn't trying to kill anyone and for it's sole intent and purpose being just that the fact that it was ordering booze was a novelty. Furhter more, it showed no ill signs of consuming said alcohol as it's sipped it's rather large glass of rum, cola, and crushed ice.

"Statement: My designation modual is MDeath60, last of the Vampiric Hunters of Mobius Prime.
Explaination: My end user thought this what he quoted as "a mouthful" so I am currently known as Grim.
Finalization: I was activated in this quasi-realm two years ago from stasis. I have no data on how I got here, who activated me, or why I am still currently running so far from my power source. I do odds and ends for the locals and in return they pay me, with which I drink with. It is a failed attempt at what you mortals call "fitting in."