01-21-03
PC's: Nina Reynolds, Ryumyo
Location: Noir Days
Summary: Both reveal their involvement in illegal work and bond deeply in trusting each other... along with additional planning for the magical group that is forming.
Main Club - Noir Days
Sleek and elegant are the words that come to mind when you enter the main club of Noir Days. It's dark in here and the clientele seems to like it that way. The walls are shiny black, the majority of light coming from two thin strips of red neon runing along the walls at waist level, then again where the walls meet the ceiling. One single candle illuminates each table in a tall red glass holders, the carpet also colored a deep rich red.
The main bar sits to the right of the entrance way - a long slick black entity with a brass bar at floor level, and again at the top. Behind the bar are stacked bottles holding every imaginable liquor, reflected off of the mirror behind.
A small raised stage sits against the back wall, directly opposite the entrance way. It is illuminated with moody red, blue, and green spotlights. Frequently there will be jazz ensembles playing there - everything from bebop to cool.
This place is chill, way chill.
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Contents:
Tom
Obvious exits:
Black Door <BD> Back Room <BR> Out <O>
Nina Reynolds(#24325PXc)
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The human female which you are looking upon appears to be in her late twenties. Her long blonde hair is straight and simple, without the modern fixations with bright colars or added metalic protrusions from her skull. She's a rather simple and plain looking woman by most standards. Cute would be a good word, most certainly not dressed like a typical city whore or slut. She's looking quite conservative.
Current the woman is wearing a very simple black sleaveless dress void of the frills and fancies of the clothing world. The elegant curve of her figure is what is accentuated, not the fame of the designer.
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Ryumyo enters the club from the entrance way.
Nina Reynolds appears to have 'JUST' taken a seat at a smaller table near the entrance, enough room at it for a couple more people if need be. She's just slipped the waiter a bit of script and he looks appreciative of what was apparently a tip for getting her the table she wanted and perhaps for some other request. A trenchcoat is hung by the table on a hook mounted on the wall near her chair and she reaches in its pocket to her left and pulls out a pocket computer and rests it on the table in front of her and then she adjusts herself in the chair to get more comfortable, turning to look across the room to the far back wall where the stage is and where the jazz band is playing a smooth and quirky tune and a large black man is going through the song of his life of woes.
Ryumyo walks inside of the room and smiles to the nearest looking paid person by the door. Stoping him he leans in as if asking him something. The other man points in a general direction to a table in the room. Ryu smiles to him and thanks him as he turns to make his way to the table near the entrance.
Nina Reynolds catches movement out of the corner of her eye and a slight turn of her head and a hand raised to brush a strand of hair back behind her ear and out of her face and that brilliant smile comes to her lips and that shine in her eyes as Ryumyo nears her table, "My.. you clean up nice." she says with a playful tone in her voice.
Ryumyo nears the table as he pulls out a chair and takes a seat on the other side of it away from Nina. He smiles as he looks down to the table for a moment. "Thank you." Looking back up with his eyes first then his head he still smiles as he says "And you look..well as great as you always do."
Ryumyo sits down at the Medium table by the entrance.
Nina Reynolds's mouth turns up in a nervous but appreciative grin, "Thank you Ryu.. You want a drink?" she motions to the waiter across the way, some time yet before he arrives, "I already ate earlier though, maybe an appetizer if your hungry eh?"
Ryumyo shakes his head at the appetizer idea.. "No, I cooked something just before you called. A glass of water would be nice however." he says looking up to the waiter. Both of his hands are resting under the table, his jacket still on, and even still buttoned at the bottom.
Nina Reynolds looks up/over as the waiter stops at the table and asks her if he can help them, "One water and a strawberry dachari please." The water nods and leaves to go about the order.
Nina looks back to Ryumyo, "I got in touch with Akito today... unfortunately, he won't be able to be a part of the group now. He's taken on some other obligations and is falling behind in his dedication to the 'arts' and doesn't feel it would be fair to join and be unable to offer his full attention to us. A nobel and respectful declining of our group. Also.. Stormcloud (OOC: Scarecrow) it is rumored to be dead," she frowns, "I didn't get the details, but I heard it from three separate sources."
Ryumyo's face drops largly at the news. He takes a moment before speaking as if to offer a bit of silence for the news of death. "Two things I didn't want to hear. I hope they both are going to be ok." he says as if Stormcloud is still around. After thinking for a moment he begins to unbutton his jacket and hang it over the back of his chair. "Esmeralda mailed me back just before I came over here. She does want to sit and talk. However, she said she couldn't make it tonight. Maybe tomorrow." As he turns back from hanging his jacket he slips a hand into the inside of it looking for something.
Nina Reynolds nods and offers in a quiet tone, pleased that the extra money she paid the waiter is still keeping the tables around them empty, a slower cold winter night seems to also be helping and people are sitting closer to the stage and jazz band anyway (a quiet lonely area where Nina and Ryu sit), "Tomarrow night I will be out of town until around 2am or so. I have to do a little late night security test on one of the companies we installed a security system in. It shouldn't be a big thing or take too long, but I want to test and make sure the vibration sensors are working on the fences in a real life environment test." she grins, "Those tests are always interesting, we can't tell the guards we're testing them... so on occasion a sharp guard might sray some gel rounds.. or sometimes worse in my direction before I surrender and let myself get captured." she chuckles, "Building security systems for companies is a hoot.. even more of a rush trying to find your own weaknesses in the coverage." she takes in a breath and half smirks, "But, there I go again talking about work like I'm some possessed mid-aged woman with nothing in her life but her career." she lowers her voice even further, "You mentioned that you and Raul went on a job.. and that he got rough and really messed a couple heads up.. what kind of work you do anyway?"
Ryumyo just smiles as you talk about work seeming to understand that you enjoy it. After you ask him about his job he laughs a slight bit to himself, "Well what Raul and I did wasn't /really/ my job. That was just something on the side, someone needed our help. What I do is on the astral. I work for a local man here in town. I keep an eye on a few wards for a few personal people. And I make rounds to some other wards that my boss keeps up. So in a way, we are both in the security work I guess."
Nina Reynolds nods and is about to respond when the waiter returns and places their drinks down and then leaves. Nina takes a sip of her powerful strawberry flavored icy drink and then places it on the napkin it was resting on and then speaks to Ryumyo at their table, "With all the crazies in this city and this world, its good to know that you can make a difference.. that you can help someone feel safe in their life. With random free spirits, crazy gangers with uzi's and those *shadowrunners*," she says the last word as if brainwashed by the trideo about how evil they are, "its a wonder people just don't lock themselves in their basements 24/7."
As the drinks are placed on the table Ryu smiles to the waiter saying "Thank you." to him. Finaly pulling his hand out of his jacket he holds something in his lap that he fiddles with, with out looking down to him. He keeps eye contact with you as he talks as he should "Tell me about it, there is alot of odd things out these days." He says real quicly as it's the first thing that poped into his head to say. "Shadowrunners?" he says oddly right after as it clearly was the second thing that poped into his head to say. "From what I can tell that is a very general stereotype."
Nina Reynolds nods to that, "True," she says to Ryumyo at the table, "What truely is a shadowrunner?" she considers and asks further, "Is the technical term someone that is hired by a corporation and/or private individual or group for the purpose of gaining advantage for said corporation by covert actions against another corporation by infiltration, theft, coruption, extraction or other means of semi to fully illegal activities which the parent hiring company will disavow sponsorship if the hired parties are discovered or their plan is foiled?" she chuckles, "Boy.. I can ramble," she grins and takes another sip.
Ryumyo laughs as the 'technical term' is shot out of Nina's mouth. "Well I would say that, that is one way to look at it. I would also argue that a shadowrunner could just a highly skilled individual either be it focused or a wide range. That merely accepts money for use of his highly skilled work. But, if I had to guess the biggest thing about a shadowrunner is that he can be given money to be quite. That's why people don't know much about them as a whole." While he talks he pulls something up from his lap and drops it into his glass of water. Two cubes fall from his hand, one white one and one purple one.
Nina Reynolds nods as Ryu speaks, her eyes briefly going to what he puts in his water, but she doesn't give it much thought, considering it medicine for his memory/mental condition, "Maybe it can be boiled down to a deffinition much more simple.. Someone that works for money not recorded by the legal system?"
Ryumyo thinks for a moment about these words. After a moment he nods, "I guess that might work. Do you think complete honesty is a major key in what we and the others are trying to do." he ask as he leans in over the top of his glass. As he goes on talking his face grows a bit worried and his speach studers a slight bit. His drink on the table slowly begins to chang colors as the white and purple cubes mix in it to form a color they shouldn't have, the drink turns to a dark dark red. "I mean..I just ummm. Honesty isn't the right word..ummmm..how much do you...how do I ask..is friendship a large key in our goal, from your point of view?" he finaly gets some kind of words out as he looks up to you with doubt and fear in his eyes for not being understood.
Nina Reynolds considers the words, and more importantly how difficult it was for Ryumyo to get them out and she waits a moment, taking a sip of her drink before answering carefully, "At the start we'll all likely be near strangers with one like minded goal.. to learn and share what we know about magic and the way it works. As time goes on I believe we will develop dynamic relationships between ourselves. Undoubtedly some of us will flare up at times in arguments or disagreements about various things outside or the decisions of things within the group. The group as a whole I belive can me narrow minded in that it is centered around expanding and neuturing the awakened natures of each of ourselves." She waits a moment and then considers, "But.. having said that... those, like you Ryu, that I know I enjoy spending time with already, I would like to think we could become far more friends beyond the group.. to trust in someone else in this world is a powerful thing and a great reserve of determination and power can be drawn from such a rare bond." She takes a sip, "So.. simply.. the group I feel can succeed without everyone baring their souls to each other about things not related to magic. But I would hope that our friendship would develop into something where we both felt we could trust each other as time goes on to make ourselves vulnerable to each other.. for only when we take a risk to we gamble at also gaining great rewards."
Ryumyo listens to every word Nina says with a great deal of care. After she is done he leans back in his chair raising one hand from his lap to lay next to his glass. He taps the side of it as bubbles rise from where he taps it at to the top. He watches the bubbles rise and pop on the top of his glass before he speaks never taking his eyes off the glass. "The job Raul and I, and others I have done, wasn't of the legal and tender type. Looking up to Nina his face is dry of a single emotion, but full of conflicing multiple ones. "I don't tell you this because of your soft face, or caring voice, I like to think I'm a little bit stronger than that." Looking away for a moment as he leans back forward, "But because I need this group to work. And I think you are a very strong woman in you views, feelings, and many more ways. I'll need your strength from times I don't doubt that for a moment." he says looking back to your eyes. "But I don't want your...trust for lack of a better word, to be given out in vain, or under false ideas." When he's done speaking he looks right down at his glass that is directly under his chin and taps on the side of it again before returning his hand back to his lap under the table.
Nina Reynolds's eyes are rivited ojn Ryumo's own, and his face when he isn't looking directly at her, she seems to have blocked out the rest of the Noir Days and only what Ryumyo is saying to her matters in the world right this moment. There is not judgement, nor condemnation in her expression but a feeling much like a soft cotton knit baby blanket in an infants crib.. something in her eyes and the way she holds herself that reveals a depth within that is all about the moment right now with Ryumyo and nothing about any other care in her life. Some moments pass before she quietly speaks, "Your commitment to the group, and thus to me is humbling and I am honored and greatful beyond compare to have found myself in the presence of such a man as yourself. I say this not to be frivelous with complements but because what you have said, and more directly what you have done, by opening up and trusting me with this information has touched me deeply," her voice cracks just slightly, showing how truely the moment has affected her emotions right now. A deep breath and then further soft words from across the table, "I am unsure how the rest of the group and I will get along, so I can not say how reluctant I will be with this information to share with them... but I refer to some information about myself. There are only three people in this world that know this of me," and she leans in closer, almost a whisper now, "I share this with you for you have offered yourself up to me and I have accepted eagerly your friendship and trust and know it is important for me to likewise confide in you something that is of grave secrecy in my life." She takes a breath and continues, "You know I work up and am in charge of installing security plans and systems for Wolverine Security Systems.. well... I have an arrangement with two other men, from competing security companies.. Knight Errant and another company in the city. They share technical specs with me and help me plan small burglaries against their clients.. and I share information on Wolverine systems with them and help them plan burglaries against my companies security systems. We are careful about it and make sure insurence covers the losses of what we take and we to date have been wise and cunning enough not to shed suspision on ourselves or produce a lack of trust in our abilities to produce quality security systems for our own companies. We make 'hits' few and far between and keep them well within the national average of corporate intrusion and loss probabilities. We fence the items off through some contacts in the city and each of us set most of this money off in Swiss Bank accounts for retirement some day.. but some of it helps us live a little better than we would otherwise on our corporate accounts." Her eyes look like a cornered bunny rabbit, revealed and vulnerable, more than ever before in her life.
Ryumyo listens at first not taking his eyes off his glass as he looks to it as if he knows fully well what you are going to say. However as you go on talking he slowly looks up to you his eye brows pulled inward at first in disbelief, then his mouth opens a slight bit unusual for Ryu as he seems to have forgot all about what his face is doing as he listens. Once you stop speaking he slowly smiles as he blinks slowly. With a swallow he shuts his mouth. After a very long split second he catches himself clearly stairing at your eyes. He seems to look dumbfounded not for sure what to say as his gaze falls down slowly to the table. "I've.." he slowly begins. "I've never been..more relived to be sitting at a table with someone ever before in my years here in Detroit." Looking up once again slowly he smiles a smile that slowly begins to take over his whole face as he looks at you.
Nina Reynolds's face seems to melt as Ryumyo's acceptance of her sinks in and she realizes that the risk in revealing her lifes gravest secret and most closely held forbidden knowledge has been taken in by the man across from her and he has accepted her for precisely what and who she is and not some pretty perfect picture that she puts on in public on how she 'should' be in this world. A smile wide enough to be thought she must be in the family heritege of Mick Jagger spreads across her lips and she does a slight head tilts out towards the small open area near the tables that are vacanat around them, "Without trying to sound like I'm getting romantic... would you like to dance?"
Ryumyo just watches the smile run across Nina's face as it is matched by his. While she begins to ask Ryu her question he lifts up his drink to take a very small sip from it, followed by him licking his lips a very slight bit as if trying to get every bit of the flavor from it he can. Looking up to her the smile still on his face he sits the glass down and holds out his other hand for her to take as he stands to his feet. "I wouldn't dream of saying no to the opportunity Ms. Reynolds." he says as he holds his hand, that isn't out to Nina, at his lower chest.
Nina Reynolds eases up out of her chair, leaving her pocket computer out and in the open on the table, having forgotten it in the 'moment', or trusting in the tip she gave the waiter to ensure her things aren't messed with while away a few paces from the table dancing. Nina's left hand slips into Ryumyo's and her fingers wrap around the edge of his palm as she leads him a couple paces away from their table to an open area and then turns into his arms and draws near him, her hands moving to rest upon his chest wear her fingertips rest near his lapels of his shirt, her hips in close to him in a close and trusting meassure that is yet short of sexual. Quite a tad shorter than the elf she looks up into his face from below as her hips sway slowly with the music of the jazz band behind her and across the room, a silly grin on her lips as if she doesn't want to say a word for a minute or two, but just enjoy this time.. a rare opportunity in a world of pain and ugliness around them.
Ryumyo follows holding on to the hand with the slightest amount of pressure. He leads only in the slightest bit as the two dance. He only allows the tips of his finger tips to lay on the side of Nina in the perfect placement like a mom would have shown her son just before prom night. He looks down into her grin for a moment and then slowly looks up over the top of her head. He head looks to be pushed back as his eyes narrow for a moment. As they do his pupils explode in his eyes as they light up both of them in a neon blue color. He looks over to the two hands that are in one another and smiles at what he sees. After letting the minutes count away dancing he speaks breaking the silence "My full name is Ryumyo Coll." he offers out with out any explanation to why he just said it.
Nina Reynolds's head has drifted forward and to the side to rest on Ryu's chest as they dance, his words awakening her trance of the motion and the music she looks up to him again as her head pulls up off his chest, "Mr. Coll," she offers in a near whisper, "Thank you."
Ryumyo looks down the slight bit to Nina's face as she says 'Thank you', he looks a bit confused at first, but not wanting to ask a stupid question he quickly covers the look up with a slight warm smile. He swallows a very slight bit before saying, "It's been the best of dreams, one that I'm proud to have been a part of, and fear of waking up from."
Nina Reynolds nods slowly in Ryumyo's arms as he holds her in the soft motion of the dance and then offers a soft sigh before speaking, "We haven't discussed yet... perhaps it would be wise if we had a seat again, to discuss exactly what abilities we have to offer to the group.. or magical talents per say. The idea for the robes as well I think can be modified yet, its a touch ambiguous," and she continues to be the one to ground them back into reality, lest they float away in peaceful bliss, "I have a few ideas."
Ryumyo nods once or twice at the idea of discussing details at the able. As he stops and pulls away from Nina he slids off to the side the hard holding hands on letting his other hand slide a slight bit across her stomach with just the slightest bit of touching from his finger tips. After moving his hand forward to the table he lets go of her hand letting it slide out of his allowing any feelings between the two go a bit more smoothly. "I agree, there is so much that we need to work out." he says quickly and shortly, but true in agreement with her.
Nina Reynolds moves the short distance back to the table, her long elegant evening dress adjusting like liquid cloth as her bare legs beneath move, the slit along her right side conservative in its revelation of the skin it covers beneath. She slips into the chair and then takes in a breath, remembering the moments just previous and vowing to herself to never take what just happened for granted. Starting the new round of conversation she serves the volley with, "I am an aspected water elementalist, though my skills with summoning elementals as of yet is quite meager at best. I can manage a handful of very weak watchers, but beyond that summoning is my largest weakness. Being a water elementalist though has its perks in illusions and mental confusion. I have had extensive learning in advanced invisibility, trideo phantasm illusions as well as silence and chaos and mass confusion. My training, explained by my instructors should allow me to produce higher levels of efficiency and manipulation than I seem to be able to command, but it is also explained that because of my bioware enhancements until I learn to syncronize these foreign materials with my true inner being I will be limited by their alien feel within my system. (OOC: Magic rating 3, initiating to raise). My bio enhancements deal with increasing my mental capacity and memory and the other is far more physical, tephlon enhanced joint modifications and high end synaptic rate accelerators." she pauses, "That is in a nut shell my magical talents and limitations, my other talents and learnings include working with electronics, or maglocks per say, first aid in a minor way, sneaking around as would be expected with my invisibility and silence and an average sort of a way with a pistol, of which I prefer a narcoject pistol.. I am most certainly not the type that wants a death on my conscience."
Ryumyo takes his seat across the table from her and quickly picks up his glass. Not following his last sip he this takes a normal drink of it that is followed by a slight cringe of his lips as he press to one another. Listing to Nina speak he waits until she is done before sliping a hand behind him into his jacket getting ahold of his pocsec. Placing it on the table he turns it on. Not dealing with it any more he lets it lay on the table. As you speak about being an elementalist Ryu smiles only smiling more and more as you go on talking. Once you are done he give all the information a bit of time to sink into his head. "Well, as for the gifts I've been given. I don't know the first thing about summoning spirts into this world. However illusions I do like. Invisibility was the first thing that I stumbled on, I didn't even know I was awakened when I first used it. But that's a long story. Physical Mask was my next. Those where more or less the only two that I was allowed to chose to learn. Growing up in Tir Tairngire I was being shown how to be what they called a field mage. It's kind of like you normal combat mage, however more of a supporting team player. Detect Enemies and Armor to protect troops. When it was needed for my training to attack, area stuns where used. I can drop a crowd of about 6 meters round and put them to sleep. I didn't want to learn how to kill someone, however before I moved out, it was required reading to learn a powerbolt formula." he says this with a bit of desperation, he's not very happy about it. Past that, I can heal a slight bit out in the field of war. That is about the full list of how I can use power from the astral. Other than I have learned how to push that power into some objects, foci and such."
Nina Reynolds sips on and finishes her dachari as she listens, slipping it off to the edge of the table on its napkin so the waiter can pick it up when its convient for him. Her hands come before her on the table and rest lightly atop each other as she listens, that ever present slight lean forward to ease conversation while keeping their voices low. She nods slowly as Ryu explains his nack with invisibility and physical mask and smiles as she learns about his large area stun spell for the spell sounds intriguing to her. Her expersion when he mentions the powerbolt is one of comfort and understanding, as if sympathizing for him having been forced into embracing something he felt strongly against. She smiles warmly when he goes silent and offers, "I am very happy that we both have a strong value for life. Beyond the confusion and complications of morality with killing another person, it also kicks things up a notch in the level a corporation or government entity is willing to track a person down and bring them to justice. A B&E and theft is one thing.. a B&E and theft with an unconcious guard is about the same.. but toss in a dead guy that leaves behind a family and kids. The corp is going to be all over that like rain on Seattle. They can't let their security people think one of them can be killed without some level of revenge, can you imagine the moral problem among their security force?" she shakes her head, "If we ever work together... on.. side work. I'm glad we think the same way on this, I can't think how confusing and frustrating it would be to work with someone all jacked upon adrenalin and trying to get street-famous by being rough and tough and not carrying about who got in his way on his track to success."
Ryumyo listens to you speak watching your mouth move from time to time. On your last few sentences he looks down to the table and nods in agreement with a look of disgust across his face. "Yeah..I don't really see the point in letting a family go through that." he says while looking down at the table. Taking another full drink from his glass he cringes once again and lets out a breath soon after that sends a drift of cinnamon into the air. Sitting his glass down he picks up his pocsec and pushes a quick three buttons before setting it back down again. "Raul really made me mad the other day." he begins then looks up to you "I tryed to stun the guy he was going to attack, but I couldn't, I was trying to keep alot of other people safe at the same time, my head was being pulled in more than one direction. He would have lived if I could have put him on the ground.." he lets this thought drift on for a little bit before speaking back up again. "So yeah, if you ever need anyone to make a magical..thing for you, just let me know. I'm not great at it, but I've been doing it for a long time now. I also really really like the astral.." he says as he points to his still neon glowing eyes. "I'm a big fan of auras, and astral travel. I fly over too Tir every now and again to see my mom and dad. It's always a fun trip."
Nina Reynolds's expression is one of concern as Ryu tells his tale of what she interprets as Raul killing someone that could have/should have been subdued instead and she looks (as well as her aura) sympathetic that Ryu had to go through such a feeling of helplessness in saving that man's life. She listens to him speak further about enchanting and she nods just slightly and smiles in acknowledgement, "I envy you being able to travel in the astral.. it is something I am unable to do and a limitation I wish didn't exist. It is encouraging though that you have this gift, for it I believe can be exstreamly useful." she considers further and then speaks in addition, "Because of Raul's actions... are you in an increased level of discovery from those that would try and see justice for this man's death? Is there a way that would and/or could be appropriate to make some type of restitution to this man's family anonymously?"
Ryumyo shakes his head "I don't know. He was a bouncer at a club that I've never seen before out of town some where. I know where it is now. He tryed to run away Nina, he knew between Raul and I he didn't have a chance. He turned to run, he almost made it away. Raul killed him with his bare hands long after the man was on the ground. I'll look into sending something to the club, maybe it'll make it too who it needs to.. But anyway, we have other things to talk about.." he thinks for a moment about what they might be, however he gives up and looks at his pocsec pushing another button on it. "Resources for the group? How should he deal with this? A pool from each person once a month, or a pool whenever we all feel the group needs something?"
Ryumyo drinks the last of his glass in a quick gulp. As he lays it next to Nina's glass he lets out another breath that smells the same. His eyes don't really leave the table while he clearly trys to push some thoughts out of his mind.
Nina Reynolds listens to the info about Raul and the more she hears the more she secretly (aura gives it away) wishes Raul accidently drops a grenade in the bathtub and slips and can't get out in time. When prodded back to magic group questions she gets a bit more motivated and less disgruntled and comments, "I think a pool that is formed once the group decides something is needed would be best... Otherwise we must deal with a central collection and overwatch person or committee and the funds would be at risk of discovery and removal from outside forces. Separate and not pooled until time of need is a more secure means I think." she considers further and then adds, "What type of things did you think the group might need? Were you thinking we'd all pool in for things like spell components and spell formuli or foci and summoning materials and the like? The tender balance of that will be determining where to draw the line. It may be a case by case group decision. Unless of course we set some goal like a secure fascility or housing situation or some other arrangements which require funds beyond personal needs for magical enhancement." she seems to want to say more and then, sure enough, she says a touch more on the subject, "I'd probably be most benefited by such pooling of assets because I have barely no money at all and Ezmeralda is loaded.. but I don't think that's fair. I have a hard time paying my rent and any money I'd be able to give to the group would be sparse at best.. I'd feel awkward if others were paying in large sums and I looked like I was just sucking off the group teat of wealth."
Ryumyo listens as you give your ideas. Once your done he begins to toss out a few of his own. "I don't think anyone will think that you are just feeding off the wealth. I don't know how much people are going to be able to help out. I my self am doing just fine on money, I feel there isn't any reason why I shouldn't share that with all of you. On top of that, I own a room that if needed is more than large enough for a place to get together. It's about a 30 foot by 20 foot open room. For right now I'm not for sure what we would spend money on. Mostly just minor things to help us teach one another different aspects of our magic use. For example if I was to teach someone about enchanting, I will need to gather not only an item, but many herbs and such for the enchantment it's self."
Nina Reynolds listens carefully and then jumps back into the conversation from her side of the table, like a game of tennis, "We *do* need to determine where we're going to have the meetings at, if the location will shift each time to promote security or if we want to have a permanent location for the meetings. That and a few of these things may need to be discussed after the Oath process at the first meeting. That, and we need to each bring with us a prepared DNA sample that has been preserved. I'm not positive on how to do this.. I may need some advice on this." She tosses out some more comments though, lest she be thought not to have a bazillion ideas at this momment, "As far as learning from direct teaching.. would it be reasonable to ask the student, or the one learning the spell or skill, to furnish the supplies or the finances for the supplies out of their own finances? Allowing for individuals within the group to donate to the purpose anonymously if they wish in a drop box at the meeting location or something. This way a person can make their own way finanically without feeling the obligation to donate to a pool, but yet those that wish or are able, are able to assist." she hmms, "We *could* require a finanical donation of a specified amount over a given length of time.. but something like that I think would fall under an organized stricture. Is that sort of what you were thinking?"
Ryumyo shakes his head from side to side. "I don't like the idea of asking people to give money. Money is such a meaningful thing to people now days. I do like the drop box idea. Maybe we could set up a bank account that all of us had to enter a password inorder to get money out of it..." he narrows his eyes at this idea showing there is something about it he just doesn't like. "I don't know. I'm sure we can find out something about this. Just keep it in mind." Looking down to his pocsec for only a moment.. "Oh wow. Do you know what time it is?" he ask.
Nina Reynolds glances at a clock on the wall over the bar, "Oh dear.. I have to be at work in 2 hours," she looks embarrased, "I gotta get home and get ready," she looks nearly panic'd, "I'll contact you tomarrow?"
Nina Reynolds stands and moves to get her coat on.
Ryumyo stands quickly as Nina does. "Yes, please do. I'll try to set up a time for us to sit and talk with the others also." Reaching for Nina's coat he offers to help her put it on. "If you haven't called me yet, I'll give you a call after I've talked with them."
Nina Reynolds nods and slips into the coat with Ryu's help, offering him a quick hug before she pulls away and goes into a jog to head to get a cab real quick.
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