PC's: Nina, Scarecrow, Leon, Joelle
Location: The Tube Cafe
Summary: Leon and Nina meet to discuss Magical group post from Magland. Joelle tags along with Leon as <backup> and Scarecrow hides in parking garage watching as <backup> for Nina.
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1 From: Leon At: Fri Aug 16 00:36:11 2002 (Conn)
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To : Nina Reynolds
Subject: Re: Magland
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Subject: Magic Group
From: worg@access.net
To: 9a7R34nov.Detroit.phantom.net
Dear Aspected Water Elementalist,
I usually don't work together with the likes of you. However, you sounded female, what makes up for at least a whee, little bit. I'm probably not 'like minded' neither, yet as things are, I had and have simular intentions and exchange of information, knowledge and unrevealed mystries with the future option to work together on said topic in the future can't do no wrong, me thinks. Well, at least sounds as if it could be worth a try.
Matter of fact, I already started to work on said matters and even though so far we are only two (would be three when counting you in) I believe it's a good base however.
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1 From: Nina Reynolds At: Fri Aug 16 00:53:00 2002 (Conn)
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Subject: RE: Magic Group
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Subject: Magic Group
From: 9a7r34nov.Detroit.phantom.net
To: worg@access.net
Group Member;
I am interested in meeting with you if you are able. A matrix meeting would be prefered to assure personal safety for both of us. If this is unacceptable I'd like to request a very public location in the nice part of the city for a face to face meet if we must.
Mist
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2 From: Leon At: Fri Aug 16 01:05:19 2002 (Conn)
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To : Nina Reynolds
Subject: Re: re: Magic Group
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Subject: Magic Group
From: worg@access.net
To: 9a7R34nov.Detroit.phantom.net
Drat these computers. They're so naughty and so complex. I could pinch them! Let's consider this the formal matrix meating and move on. I'd like to sniff at you meatside, for all I know I could might aswell talk with a Knight Errant Covered Ops Barbie here or some perv who confused shadowland with a bdsm site.
So, here's the deal. It's you and me, you pick the location, public is fine with me. Nice part of town too, if we must. I'd prefer one with a cafe nearby though, so we could sit somewhere and talk while having a drink.
<OOC: I can attend mostly when ever except this friday night. We have some roleplayer meeting in Dave and Busters for all peeps who are nearby to the St. Louis area, so I'd probably be not back until late. Every other day should be fine though. Just leme know and I try my best to arrange things so I can be there. Looking forward to it :)>
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3 From: Nina Reynolds At: Mon Aug 19 17:06:10 2002 (Conn)
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To : Leon, Nina Reynolds
Subject: IC Email
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Subject: Meeting
From: 9a7r34nov.Detroit.phantom.net
To: worg@access.net
Possible Member;
If possible, could you meet me at the Tube Cafe attached to the Gateway Regency for a meeting in an hour or so? If you need more time, just let me know. I'll be the one at the counter watching a blank orange screen on my pocsec.
Mist
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4 From: Leon At: Mon Aug 19 17:12:33 2002 (Conn)
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To : Nina Reynolds
Subject: Re: Meeting
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Subject: Magic Group
From: worg@access.net
To: 9a7R34nov.Detroit.phantom.net
Heaven sakes, Gateway Regency? I won't evn ask why you choose one of Detroit's number one corp suits hotel for a meet like that. You're one strange chicca, hope you know that. Deal, one hour. I'll be there.
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The Tube Cafe
This is a clear plastic human transport tube that allows people to walk from the second floor of the Gateway Regency, over the road below, and into the upper level of the Gateway Regency Parking Garage.
Halfway between both destinations is a small sandwich and soda cafe with a small counter for those last minute snacks on the way to work in the morning and for the busy on the move citizens of Motown.
< -places- available here >
Obvious exits:
Gateway Regency <GR> Garage <G>
Leon has arrived.
<RP NOTES>: Nina has arranged to meet Leon in the Tube Cafe to discuss her magland post about starting up a magical group. Nina has suspicious and just general caution about the meeting so has contacted Scarecrow as backup. Scarecrow is in the 2nd floor parking garage of the gateway regency with a position of concealment near a vehicle where he can see across the way and into the plexiglass tube walkway that connects the gateway regency apartment building with the parking garage across the street. He has positioned himself so that he can see Nina sitting at the counter and awaits for her signal <If she wipes her mouth with a napkin using her <LEFT> hand>, he knows that he should approach as if by coincidence, finding Nina there at the counter and continue on as if good friends..
Nina has placed herself at the counter in the tube cafe a considerable time before the meet is scheduled and she has placed her pocket secretary on the counter in front of her as she enjoys a milkshake. The pocsec screen is a solid orange color, a rather boring and seemingly pointless thing to have an a pocsec screen.
Joelle has arrived.
The first indication of his arrival might be the 'Rover which drives down the parking garage, or at least it perhaps works as indication of an arrival not always or often in a place like this. It looks somewhat too out of shape for such. It would look good still for any other, cheaper area, but not for this.
However, the vashion islan suit, complete with mirrored shades, does. There is no visable weapon or bulge on the man, neither does he seem to get stopped by one of the sensors in the lobby or security present there and so he soon arrives in the tube cafe. It is indeed the counter he is heading for upon arrival. Stalking through the place, self conciously as if born to be in places like such. Well, at least not as if feeling uncomfortable by the upper class surroundings.
Nina Reynolds sips from her milkshake, seemingly relaxed and wasting time, perhaps another woman without a job in the city. Nina glances on occassion at people passing by and she seems to have a headache for she frequently raises her right hand to her forehead as if to rub her forehead to ease the pain, <OOC: She's blocking her eyes so that when she looks astrally at the passers bye its not obvious to them right off.. she's of course expecting a magically active person for the meeting>.
s pose.
"Hoi," is Leon's initial comment when arriving at the counter. Not to Nina who is present there, but to any waitor like looking person should one be present. Even though, she gets a good, long glance soon thereafter and if it's only caused by the fact that she is female. He continues once his stare has found a way from the woman back to the waitor. Only once that is said he turns a bit and starts to inspect the place in general, letting his eyes trace through the tube, the counter and any other patrons he might spot.
You start looking into the astral plane.
Leon
Dark swaths, with silvery strains in it are whirling over and through this aura, they look strange, sinsiter somehow, making it even hard to spot this figure at all at the first moment.
Once you peer through this haze his figure appears clearly though, a dim aura of an moderate healthy male human in his midt to late twentys. There are some dark spots around his lungs and liver, probably caused through the continous intake of to much alcohol and nikotin.
But that are not the only dark spot in the aura of this being.
Light grey shades of flicker through his image indicating strong emtions of past desparation, but then other colors swirl along his astral image too, red, purple, blue and green indicating a mix of emtions. He is either a very confused or very balanced individual but in any way he seems to hold quite an agressive potential. Probably both ends out the same, a soft side within a rough shell.
His general stature has changed too, his jaw and ears are more distinct and his body seems to be covered in a dark fur of some kind. The first impression perhaps reminds on a wolf or dog, but there is something more sinister, more dark about him ... something more vile ...
Joelle
Dark swaths, with silvery strains in it are whirling over and through and over this aura, they look strange, sinsiter somehow, making it at first hard to spot details about this figure.
Yet once peering through this haze you perceive a light, dim aura of an moderate healthy female human in late teenage age.. There are some dark spots around his lungs and liver, probably caused through the continous intake of ... well, poluted air. She must be out on the streets often.
But that are not the only dark spot in the aura of this being. There is a large dark area around her cortex and at the side of her brain. Dark vines run down her body and finaly end up in the palm of her hand.
Light grey shades of flicker through his image indicating strong emtions or past desparation, but then other colors swirl along his astral image too, red, purple, blue and green indicating a mix of emtions. The most prominent surface emotion is curiousity too. Her shape has changed aswell. Her nose is more defined and set forward, ears larger and her teeth look sharp and her figure is covered in some sort of fur, lending her a rather rodent like appearance.
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Joelle is just behind Leon as he enters the 'Tube' and not looking that thrilled to be here. As she realizes what type of place this is, spotting the woman with a milkshake, she seems to perk some. Kids! You can almost see her mouth watering as she sits down at the counter, not to far from the woman and places an order for a 'Chocolate Milkshake, no whipcream'.
Leon gets the brief gaze of Nina as she rubs her forehead, wincing just a touch to add to the realisim of trying to pull of having a headache at the moment. It's this last person <Leon> which she's examined in the astral plane though that has peaked her recent interest and she thinks she might have the person in question near her now. And ah.. another magically active person follows behind this man... he too was careful enough to bring an associate, that is good that he thinks of such things... Nina returns her vision to the mundane world and lowers her hand, offering a nod to Leon but no comment, as if just another lady off work today resting in the tube cafe. She returns her attention to her pocsec and starts typing her fingers on it lightly after she turns it ever so slightly towards Leon. On her screen is no text, but only an orange screen.
It is the woman who is dressed in burgandy cordiroy slacks and chearfull green long sweater who attracted part of Leon's interest and attention, even in a very mundane and male way. For moments he seems to appraise her form. When she nods his head dips forward aswell and he turns back towards the counter again. A subtle motions which supposingly solves the purpose of bringing him an inch closer and into a position from where he is able to take a better peer at the pocsec, or at its screen to be specific. He too remains quiet so far, yet that might be aswell something caused by the relative silence around him.
Joelle having placed her order for chocolate and watching the waiter move to fill it, swivels on her chair and turns to look around. She glances from the man whom she followed in to the woman he's looking at. She doesn't miss her subtle motion and turns to glance at the screen too to see if she can see what is worth so much attention.
Nina Reynolds presses a button the the pocsec and it clears blank with a blinking cyan cursor. The then starts to type and large 1/2 inch high letters come up on the screen: Mists along the rivers edge roll up into the city in search of knowledge and understanding.
<OOC Note:> Leon has cybereyes and is trying to use optical vision magnification III to make reading the screen subtle
<OOC> Nina Reynolds says, "roger that.. sounds good."
Leon nods. To whatever. Probably something he has seen though and less a spoken comment, that impression could be simply caused by, well, there was nothing said recently what could have caused that reaction. Once more the man turns, waits for a waitor to come by behind the counter and orders 'a coffee', nonchalantly with exactly those words.
That done and once a cup is delivered his gaze traces back to Nina, stareing at her for an instance and then he removes himself from the counter to settle for a vacant spot somewhat away from the small coffee. One, which at least makes the impression of appearing as secluded as possible in the tube. There his hands are folded while the cup remains in his right and his glance is back on Nina Reynolds, watching here while apparently waiting.
Nina Reynolds picks up on a couple of the several key factors which signify to her that this person which has just ordered coffee very well might be the contact she's been communicating with through emails. She folds up her pocsec and slips it away and then picks up her remaining milkshake in its glass and slips from her stool. Nina offes a smile and a nod to Joelle (a stranger in her mind to this point) and then she turns to near Leon's position and takes a seat in the stool next to him. Her voice is quiet, almost to a whisper when she sets her milkshake back down on the counter and slips up onto the stool, "Worg?" she says in an inquisative tone, using the prefeix of his email address as the cue.
Joelle's glance at the prosec is brief before she's looking off down the walkway towards the garage and back the way they came. She leans back casually against the bar and seems content to stay that way. At least till her shake is brought, she brings it around and sigps at it quietly thru the straw. Her hearing is actually at the moments being stretched as much as possible, one to hear the conversation that is supposedly out of earshot of her and two to listen for any threats that might come there way.
"Ye betcha," is Leon's initial response to 'Worg'. His eyes haven't left Nina Reynolds yet and only a short, sidelong glance traces off to Joelle. More one as to simply try and observe which position she claims. "The bringer of Ragnarok," his head dips to yet another nod and his eyes are back on the woman which joined him at his present location. He takes himself time with saying anything more, simply regards the female with a look, well, supposingly, his eyes mainly remain concealed by dark mirrorshades for that matter, takes a sip from his coffee and dips his head back to the counter. "So, this is what ye call a nice cafe, good for conversation? Here is hoping ye have a deeper understanding in other matters. For now, I will trust ye in that." His voice is even, raspy a bit but still might not fail a notion which might could be considered cold.
Nina Reynolds responds in a hushed tone, "You assume to much sir.. I did not say this was a good place to meet for conversation." she takes a sip of her milkshake and then slides it to arms length away to signify she is done with it, "It is a position that is highly visible and as such offers a mulitidue of security options to assure my safety when meeting an unknown person. Your being watched by several individuals right now and I assure you conversation is not highest on their list of priorities right now." she pause for a moment before adding carefully, "It was and is not my intention to insult you sir, I would request that same respect in return."
"Ye security," Leon repeats while leading the cub back to his lips and before taking another, short sip of the hot liquid. "What about mine, after all, it's me too meeting an unkown person," his lips twist up however to somewhat of a flat grin. The same turn his shoulders move to a hint of a shrug. "Dosen't matter though, as ye saw I brought a date with me and am completely confident I take ye with me before 'certain individuals' finish me off, should they decide and open fire. No threat intended though, just a fact. The risk is on both sides. So, I take it ye don't intend for us to stay here any longer until satisfied I pose no risk or threat to ye?" His voice is silent aswell, though not impossible to overhear but words like this might be the reason he seeked a spot at least somewhat detached from the small cafe.
Joelle seems rather interested in her milkshake and watching out the glass. Her gaze is slow as she racks over various places people could be watching from as she uses her enhanced senses to search for problems. All done as non-obvious as possible while trying to pull of the lazy teen look. Feet swinging idly on as she slouches on the counter demolishing her chocolate shake. If the younger girl is listening, she shows no signs of emotion at being called 'a date'. Might be kind of odd for this teen to be the older man's date though.
Nina Reynolds listens closely to Leon, at a moment appearing as if ready to just slip from her stool and walk away.. that look on her face just for a moment that reveals she doesn't think the effort is worth it. But she stays.. and she listens and then she nods as Leon finishes his comments. It's with carefully selected words that she softly speaks next to Leon, "Why are you interested in such a joining? You seem far too aloof.. or shall I say.. lacking in the desire to allow someone the opportunity to grow fond of you."
"Even I have my limits," Leon responds matter of fact. So far his expression has remained rather even, even should he have caught hint of Nina's inclanation caused by his previous comment, facial features and outward demeanor haven't changed much. "I consider myself neither aloof, nore do I care much if someone grows fond of me. Their choice. I simply give shit. This, ye know, that charming trait of my personality, might be the reason why fellows started to call me Worg. Why are ye interested in such joining? Because ye are clever and know that two individuals, as different as we are, might aswell could profit from sharing each others knowledges and learning from their respective ways."
Joelle shifts on her stool, a hand passing over her face as she hides the smile on her face as she stifles the snigger at the idea of someone groing fond of Leon. The moment so fleeting, only one who was watching her closely would have cuaght it before she's back to her 'bored teen persona'. Other then ordering her shake, she hasn't said a word as she seems to study everything and nothing in particular.
Nina Reynolds nod slowly as the conversation turns more specificially towards why she is hear, "It is my intent to gain fellowship with a group of individuals intent on learning from each other, sharing like experiences in the magical realm of life so as to support each other in pressing each member to new limits. What one may manage on his or her own can be redoubled and expanded with the help of others. Man is a social creature, leastwise he is normally when not afflicted by unfortunate psychological abnormalities... it is my intent to embrace this social nature within a like minded gathering so that all may benefit by the results."
Leon's grin grows at the mentioning of 'unfortunate psychological abnormalities'. "Yeah," he mumbles, "I already heard that term. Last time it was used in context with my person." Out of whatever reason he appears to consider this funny. Well, at least it proves he knows emotion and humor. "I might or might not be a social creature, in a way I am prolly, but I leave judging that up to others. I also don't care much about general human psychology, but I do agree on the point of it might being usefull to learn and share experiences and that is, why I am here. The only question is, can ye and whatever other individuals deal with my personality. I've no problem with ye's, but that migth be simply cause I consider myself ... how did ye put it ... 'aloof'."
Nina Reynolds offers a moments hesitation and then nods slowly, "I believe I am capable of such accomidations. Tis true, the first email from you was a bit annoying, the second only confirmed my immediate dislike.. the first moments of speaking with you in person provided additional proof of a deffiante difference in personality." she offers a wide smile then, "But.. being different is not a bad thing. People come in all shapes and sizes, all demeanors and personalities. I am not put off by what I have seen thus far. If you are still interested I would like to offer an more relaxed environment in which you can attend, and bring any addition persons you feel might also wish possible membership so that you can meet with the others thus far interested in our joining. Is this acceptable?"
"Believe me," at this point Leon actually chuckles, a reaction caused apparently by Nina's most recent comment. "Ye annoyance was nothing compared to the one of someone who calls himself Cobra when I decided to answer to one of his comments on a certain site. The second comment dosen't find an imidiate answer, instead he drains the rest of his coffee and puts the empty cup down. "In other words, ye let me be how I am, I let ye be how ye are and we dry to deal with each other. We see how it'll work anyway." He pauses and dips his head to a light nod there, "yeah, it is acceptable, of course."
Nina Reynolds's eyes reveal recognition at the mention of the name Cobra but it is quickly concealed as she listens further to Leon's comments, "Shall we remain using the names we are going by thus far for the time being?" and she asks further, "And is email appropriate for me to notify you of the next meeting with the larger group?"
"The address is appropriate and valid for another week." Leon pushes himself off the wall and window he kept leaning against, getting into a more straight position. "I," he shrugs, "encountered some minor troubles recently and will have a new one set up soon. It's save for now though. Should I not here back from ye by then, I'll send ye an email with my new addy. I anyway tend to change it from time to time. Yeknow, out of whatever reason not everyone has grown fond of me."
Nina Reynolds offers a playful grin to Leon, seeming somehow to taken Leon's personality as a challenge rather than an afront to humanity as it probably should be, "Then that is there loss.. for there is a nobel man, a generous and kind man.. a man of great loyalty and friendship I see within you. Granted the fur may be matted down from sleeping in the wild, but inside the eyes is where the gate to the soul is found.. and your not nearly as annoying now that I've met you." she grins and offers a not to Leon, "I will contact our associates soon and arrange the meeting."
Leon takes some short steps away from the wall upon Nina's words, but when she finishes her comment he stops and the edges of his lips twist up. "Maybe," he says while looking back over his shoulder. "Guess I can be all that, but I suppose also, always, depends on which side ye stand'n. Cuz, yeknow, I see a polite, intelligent and nice girl when I look at ye," what might be a task since she probably looks older than he is, even if not by all too much, "but I have no doubts that this could change, should someone really piss ye off, no? And, most of the people who hate me, they, well, have a reason for doing so, I suppose."
Nina Reynolds nods to Leon and then glances over to Joelle with a polite smile and then turns back to Leon, "I look forward to meeting you both again, I feel well with our first meeting." she stands from her stool and then waves to the employee, turning half away from Leon, "Excuse me.. I'd like to pay for my bill plesae.. and for these two as well." and sets about tending to pay for the drinks if there were any open tabs, letting the others slip out should they wish without further comment.
"So do I," Leon responds with another nod to Nina while watching her pass on towards the counter. The gesture of her paying for their drinks aswell appears appreciated and his lips curve up again. Oh yes, he seems satisfied with how things have gone so far and latest now it is well obvious by his expression. His eyes trace off to take in Joelle, looking at her for an instance as he starts to move on, back down the hallway and to the exit of the tube he emerged from some time ago. "Take care and watch ye six," might be the last words spoken by him before he leaves the place.
Joelle sucks the last of her shake up till it makes that talltell sound of an empty glass. She sets it back on the counter as she sees things wrapping up. She starts to reach in her pocket but then stills at Nina's comment. She glances towards Leon for guidance and when he seems satisfied with that she shrugs and slips off her stool and falls in step right behind him as he heads back the way they came. She glances over her shoulder at Nina and smiles and then shoves hands in her pockets and leaves the 'tube'
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