PC's: Nina Reynolds, Scarecrow Location: Noir Days Summary: Nina sets up an elaborate test to see if Scarecrow is truely a gentleman with good intentions towards her. It involves Nina using "Physical Mask" and turning into Leon in the Noir Days. The place is alive as Pancho Sanchez the third is beating on the conga drums with a rythm thats alive. A small puff of smoke rises from the table by the stage as Scarecrow sits, his hands across his lap, long legs crossed as he smokes a smaller, cigarette sized joint. He keeps his held tilted to one side, looking down at the table, but bobbing to the living beat. The pervious night, in the rain of course, Nina and Scarecrow spent some time on a bench on Belle Isle Park chatting about life and getting to know each other. It was mentioned that the next time they should meet at the Noir days because they both enjoy Jazz it turns out and they wanted to meet somewhere that for a change wasn't raining. Late this night/early morning (just after midnight) Nina tries her luck after a bit of insomina, takes a shower, gets on her pretty black dress she bought from the Calvin Klein store in the mall almost a month before now and then grabs her trenchcoat and umbrells and takes a cab from the Gateway Regency to the Noir Days. Nina pays off the cab and heads into the club, checks her coat and narcoject pistol at the coat/weapons check at the entrance and then steps into the club to gaze around. Her vision isn't that great but she mentioned the table by the stage to Scarecrow and she see a hulking ork like shape there in the distance. Nina shifts her gaze into the astral and gets her bearings a moment, confirming the familiar shifting of colors over the ork as her friend Stormcloud. Nina Reynolds moves forward, stopping at the bar and then buying herself a Guiness. The woman than picks up her black thick syrupy drink with the thick white foam resting on its top and moves towards the table by the stage, stopping near Scarecrow by a pace or two and waiting until he notices, a grin on her lips. The trumpets wail like a crying woman giving her heartfelt song of love and betrayal. Filled with more emotion that can what can be considered humanly possible. Scarecrow shakes his head, as to say No-No-No, woman don't cry. He turns his head as Nina is about two steps from the table. He gives a smile, nothing is said as he lets the music play on. He rises slowly and takes out a seat in one motion. A polite gesture, or respect. Nina Reynolds bows her head just slightly in return to Scarecrow and she slips down into the offered chair after she places her pint on the table and then lays her small purse on the table's left side as respect to where she will be sitting and then she scoots it in slightly with Scarecrows help. Nina's hands reach forward as Scarecrow moves to regain his chair at the table and she lifts the guiness to her lips for a sip and then a wipe of her upper lip of the foam as the other hand places the drink back to the table. Nina looks to the musicians nearby on the stage and starts to 'get the beat' in her neck and shoulders as she moves slightly with the tune and then her head turns to look to Scarecrow, a smile comes to her lips and a depth to her eyes that betrays her enjoyment of the moment. The bass seeming to add a mass of souldful substance that evelopes the mind and sooths the body. The reality of silent listeners clashing with a world of music that lives out its reality through the musician. Scarecrow gives a small smile back as he drags from his smoke, jammin. His eyes soon lower back to the table, no words exchanged yet as he allows himself to be emmersed again into his traslation of a universal language. The set comes to an end as the conga drum is tapped lightly and takes the world of music out like the end of a calm breeze blowing. Nina Reynolds's attention is split between listening and watching to the musicians and sharing her attention towards Scarecrow. As the song comes to its completion an almost sexual look of satisfaction comes to Nina's face, a look of elation and contentment. Nina leans towards Scarecrow slightly and speaks to him quietly, "I have to go to the restroom.. I'll be right back." and then she stands without waiting for assistance and pushes her chair back in, leaving her purse and guiness on the table, pausing just a moment in case Scarecrow wants to say or do something. Scarecrow is left wanting more as the crowd claps and gives praise to the speakers to the world of Latin Jazz. He sings in a bit as his enhanced memory plays each note in exact recolection of in which they were played. His trnace is then broken by Nina's whispered voice as he nods and says,"Sure.." He rises, as she rises. His eyes stay on her as he seems to slowly sink back into this reality,"Take your time.. I'll be here." He lowers slowly back into his seat as the smoke hisses out of his tusks. Nina Reynolds rolls 10 dice against a TN 4: 1 2 3 3 4 5 7 8 10 15 (6 successes) Nina Reynolds rolls 10 dice against a TN 3: 1 2 2 3 4 4 4 5 5 22 (7 successes) Nina Reynolds leaves the table by the stage and moves through the busy club, for the night is in its prime, 1am on an early Saturday morning. It takes her some moments to reach the hue of the yellow lamp lip hallway and then she passes from view. .. Nina moves into the hallway and into the small phone booth there and closes the door behind her so that its quiet and private and then she bows her head and concentrates... Drawing on her knowledge of the mistic arts Nina's hair shrinks and moves more near her head, her shoulders widen, her height changes, her face pulls and contorts and shifts.. and within only two seconds "Leon" stands in the phone booth. "Leon" opens the phone booth and steps out, eyeing a young woman coming out of the restroom with a slight lear in his gaze of appreciation and then in moments Leon is seen exiting the hallway to the restrooms and looks across the room as if looking for someone he was conversing with before he entered the shitter. "Leon" grins sardonically as he spies Scarecrow and he moves towards the table by the stage, stopping near the Ork there and speaking clearly, "You numbnuts." he motions to the guiness and the woman's purse there, "Our hot bitch Mist here?" he offers a twisted grin like he is eager to get a piece of the woman if possible. (OOC: Intelligence roll vs TN 3, need 7 successes to see through Physical Mask spell). Scarecrow says, "heh. not going to get 7 succ. max is 5 so. posing." The band has taken five as Scarecrow turns to Leon's voice. His eyes widen as he hears the term numbnuts. His dulled out German accent seems to become thicker as he says,"What?.. I waz not expecting you, and the names Scarecrow." He rises slowly as he looks over to the purse and snags it back, pressing it down on the table and says,"Seems as if you need a few lessons of Etiquette, one being how you greet people and two, keeping your hands to yourself. Now you know. I think my english is clear, I donot repeat myself." His tone, seeming to be a serious one hidden behind a calm and controled whisper. His joint is tocked on again as he waits a few moments and lets out cloud of smoke into Leon's face. "Leon's" face splits into a sarcastic grin as he turns to look around the club as if searching for Nina and then looks back to Scarecrow more seriously, "You can drop the big boy rep ~scarecrow~," his voice accentuating the orks name as if his parents were playing a cruel joke on the young ork baby that day in the hospital, "There's enough of dat girl ta go around. Hell.. I'll even let you nail her first.. I don't mind for sloppy seconds.. we got a deal?" Scarecrow puhs out a brief shoot of smoke as he says,"I don't think you should concern yourself with that Worg." He holds the joint within two fingers and points them at Leon as he says,"Mind yours and stay focused. Your erking me." He takes a pull from the joint and says,"You know..." He looks around and waits for Nina to return. His high, kind of ruined and the music hasn't started yet. He looks as if he wants to leave. "Leon's" face moves into a smile and he speaks, but its freakish weird, his voice sounds just like Nina's, as if he's changing his voice with his magic, "I'm sorry to play such a cruel joke on you my friend.. you are truely a gentleman, I hope you can forgive me this little test." Scarecrow is shcoked at first, then switches his perception to the astral. He seems to waving emissions of Nina's aura on Leon's form and comes back into the astral with a smile, a small one. He looks over the area and just waves his hand, he seems distracted, emmbarrased, irritated as he says,"Just don't change here. not out in the open.." He plops back down into his seat, defeated as his eyes just stay away from Nina/Leon for a while. "Leon" leans over and moves to kiss Scarecrow on the cheek, "I'll be right back," Nina's voice speaks softly to him. Scarecrow is kissed by Nina as Leon. He shifts a bit, now uncomfortable as he is seen being kised by a man. He leans forward and then quickly leans back. Shifting a bit before he finaly calms down to just folding his hands before him on the table and lowering his head down. His face hidden behind his long knotty dreads as his breathing is steady and calm, seen within the rising and falling of his shoulder. "Leon" turns from the table by the stage and moves for the exit of the club, apparently heading outside to leave. Scarecrow suddenly plops back as he rises from the table with the purse in hand. He makes sure nothing was left by Nina as he soon at a distance follows 'Leon' out. A new joint is placed within the side of his right tusk as he lights it up. His steps carrying him to try to catch up to Leon/Nina. "Leon" passes through the exit in a minute or so and moves outside. A waiting Taxi nearby is parked for the busy club hoppers and "Leon" pulls open the backdoor quickly and hops inside, speaking in his male voice, "Down the block to the Nordic Gym please." His hand reaches into a pocket and pulls out a 10 spot(cash) and hands it to the cabbie for the 500 foot ride down the block. "Leon" gets out of the cab and dashes up into the gym, stops in the entrance of the gym and then moves down the hallway. A few seconds in the hallway and a moment of being alone happens where "Leon" shifts suddenly to Nina and she turns into the woman's restroom. It's five minutes later, her locker opened and her hairdrier taken out and used and then her umbrella removed from the locker and she's back outside under the protection of her umbrella. Nina Reynolds steps out of the Nordic Gym, unaware that she was followed and seemingly in a hurry to get back to the Noir Days. Scarecrow keeps his eyes snapped into the asntral as he tries to keep track of Nina's movements. Watching 'Leon' get into the cab seems to have confused him a bit. The cab moves down good number of blocks. He finds himself walking in the same direction as to where the cab went to within the rain. His black raincoat held loosley on his form as he holds her purse in his hands. His eyes still watching as he takes in the astral plane. He soon spots her making her way back in a hurry. He darts to her direction as he tries to halt her movement. Nina Reynolds spies Scarecrow moving quickly towards her and she stops in her tracks, she looks like a kid caught with her hand in the cookie jar and she takes a step back, worried that she's overstepped her boundries and maybe did a real stupid thing. Her face shows a certain worry when her mouth opens to speak, probably an appology. Rain pours down over the edges of her umbrella as she stands there, her mouth stuck half open but no words are managing to come out. Scarecrow moves closer and slides under the umbrella as he lets his form loom over Nina. He has calmed down considerably. His hands moving to her free hand to place the purse within it. His eyes seeming to never break from hers as he says in a quiet voice,"Now that I look back at it... It was funny. Guess the waitress I was talking to would never look at the same way at me again, but that doesn't matter..." He gives a smirk, that soon fades. "Seems as if we have to get used to some things. As your brand and style is that of trickery and deciet.. just. makes things tougher on me. if you can understand where I'm coming from. Had my gaurd down for a sec, you know..." His voice dies down as he lowers and backs away from the umbrella a bit. Nina Reynolds raises her umbrella up so that Scarecrow won't bap his head into the edge of it as he steps up closer to her and then visibly shows relief when she is assured Scarecrow is not mad at her and she accepts the purse he offers her and then slips the thin strap of the purse up over her shoulder. When the large ork moves to step away Nina steps toward him to stay close to him and keep the umbrella over the both of them, her free hand moves to slip up under his elbow as to be escorted and she moves in closer to him, tugging lightly at him back towards the west/Noir Days, "It seemed like such a good idea to see if you were truely the gentleman I percieved you to be.. but once you proved yourself I suddenly realized what trouble I could be causing Worg.. and then I understood how foolish it was for me to do that." she sighs deeply, "I am *SO* glad you took it well, you are a gentleman and you are forgiving," a look in her eyes as she gazes at Scarecrow reveals in her a deep likeness for the ork. Scarecrow lifts his head and says,"as for Worg,.. never really spoke to him outside of our meets actually. So , your right, that would have been disasterous if I didn't knoiw it was you. Is that how the guy really is?. geesh." He just stands there and lowers his head a bit. His face without a smile, his eyes still turned away from Nina, avoiding her look. His nose, almost slightly wrinkled as he just slowly lets it go. He sighs and says,"Well, I'm missing the second set so.. I guess I'll head back home. I was more erked that I was fooled actually. I don't like suprises, I'm am learned in detection... but it just shows that I have alot to learn right?." His face softens a bit as he looks back at Nina's eyes, still, no smile. Nina Reynolds frowns as she realizes even deeper how foolish she was to mess with this man as she has, perhaps causing deeper levels of troubling thoughts within his mind than she even understood at first. Her eyes still offer a betrayal of concern and care though if they are looked at, but the ork man besider he doesnt' look her way. She leans forward again, this time as herself and not an old man and moves to kiss Scarecrow on the cheek, catching strange looks from a couple elves passing by which take offense at the woman showing such affection for an ork, "We both have much to learn my good friend.. together... we will learn together." and then releases Scarecrow's elbow as she realizes he wishes to depart from her. Scarecrow calls over a cab, amazingly, and pays the driver to take Nina home. A knowling lookof goodbye is seen within his eyes; his expression now spfter after the scond kiss, He stars off down the street as he fizxes his coat, not looking back as he leaves the cab in wait and Nina. Rain falling down in its familair pittery patter, making one wonder if its ever going to stop. Lighting flashing in the sky as the thunder soon rolls after. Nina Reynolds slips into the cab which comes at Scarecrows beconing. Its her face in the rear window that watches behind at Scarecrow on the rain covered sidewalk while the cab moves off east, taking her to the Gateway Regency.. and so ends the 'great test', revealing a depth within Scarecrow which draws Nina closer to the ork, reveals his friendship, his kind and gentle self and his pride... pride which is strong, but submissive to his kindness. Nina arrives home to change her clothes, taking a warm shower as she considerst he ork named Stormcloud and she finds herself anxious for the next time she can see him. Its a couple hours later before she takes a cab back to the Noir days to pick up her ternchcoat and narcoject pistol from the coat/weapons check and then takes a cab back home again. The world seems to move slow and sluggish around her, her mind deep in thought about Scarecrow.