Light of May ::: an original roleplay

Who: Kitty
Where: Ad Gustum
When: Early morning

Fragments of the past few days fluttered before Kitty's eyes like dark dreams in a kaleidoscope, frightening and broken, too confusing to piece together. She knew she was tired and cold, dreadfully thirsty and somewhere unsafe. She just didn't know where. It seemed more like a nightmare than reality, and she let it continue in spurts until she was coherent enough to take in her surroundings. It was a little room, the walls bare and the floor made of concrete. There was a mattress and a blanket and a the clothes that Kitty had been wearing when she'd been kidnapped, which she quickly pulled on. There was a toilet in a bare little bathroom, a bottle of water, and a sandwich that was at least a day stale. Kitty ate it anyways, too hungry to care. It was cold, and she guessed from that alone that she was in a basement of some sort. The door, heavy and wooden, was locked tight.

The nightmares were real. The longer she waited to wake up, the more she came to realize she wasn't going to. The memories came flooding back, how she'd killed the boy in the park only to be taken captive by a vampire. He'd shot her, that fucker! If she ever saw him again, she'd scratch his eyes out! But before that, she'd have to be free of this place. At some point, someone would come to check on her, and there didn't appear to be any kind of special door through which to look in on her and deliver food. She was in a house, not a castle dungeon. She could easily shift into a crow then fly out the moment her captor opened the door.

Except she couldn't. With a scream of frustration, Kitty found herself unable to change form for the first time in her life. If there'd been more things to throw around the room, she would have thrown them. Instead, she kicked at the door, pounded with frustration, until she found it was hurting her more than helping. She screamed till her throat was sore, but no one answered if they heard her. Aware of magic as she was, she realized that it might not even be possible to hear her. Heavy breaths of frustration turned to quiet crying as she sunk down on the mattress. Someone would come down to her eventually. They had to. Maybe then she'd get some answers.

Who: Quinn and Galen
When: Around 9pm
Where: Around Les is More
( No way I'm disco dancing )

Who: Lex and Domina
When: Mid/Late Evening - post announcement
Where: The party

Domina was finding the party to be all sorts of unexpected hilarity. Though starting the evening initially peeved to have to intro the new man-ho, watching his interactions had proven thoroughly amusing, and she'd met Katie - who she had high expectations for. The dinner portion had been mostly a bore, having to sit with her family and all the 'victims', who looked about as out of place here as she would have looked walking into Sunday mass wearing her best french lingerie. But the dinner was over, and thank whatever god would take up with someone like Domina for that.

To her surprise, earlier in the evening she had spotted Lex. While she had invited him, she hadn't initially had the impression he'd actually go. Finally she made her way over to him. He cleaned up so well, it was almost a shame he wasn't one of her whores. He would have been such a pretty one! "Fancy seeing you here," she said, after sauntering on over. "Enjoying yourself?"

( Read more... )

Who: Sloane and Will
When: Three PM
Where: The Stone Townhouse

( Like a song of love that clings to me, how the thought of you does things to me. )

Who: Trip and Lily
When: Evening
Where: The Moriarty Party

( Trip had come to make an appearance, appease the folks and at some point, hopefully with one or several of his friends in tow, make a great escape and possibly throw a little impromptu pool party at his place. )

Who: Domina and Kayla
When: Evening!
Where: Moriarty place!
( Introductions )

Who: Day and OPEN
Where: The party
When: 10ish

It was the weirdest party Day had ever been to, that was for sure. It had such an aire of tension and awe and pompousness, that it was nearly suffocating, but Day was determined to enjoy himself, anyhow. He wasn't the center of attention-- that would be the all the people who had actually been kidnapped and tortured and had things happen that he'd rather not think about-- but that didn't mean he wasn't dressed fabulously in Tilly originals and here to collect as many smiles and secrets as he could.

The gifts for the teens in question had been amazing and unexpected, and completely ironic. Tilly didn't want to go to college! And here she had thirty thousand dollars to put towards college. Of all the things to have done for her....

Stopping by a table again to get another drink-- nothing alcoholic, of course-- he drifted off, looking for someone to chat with.

Who: Freddie and Fin
Where: The Moriarty party
When: Some time after dinner

( No one laughs at God when the cops knock on their door and they say 'We've got some bad news, sir' )

Who: Autumn and Graham
When: 6:30am
Where: Autumn's house
Warning: NSFW

( You can scratch all over but that won't stop you itching. )

Who: Duncan and Open
When: 9 PM
Where: Moriarty Party

( But it would do )

Who: Bunny and Eleanor Moriarty (NPC)
When: Late evening
Where: The party

After the announcement and happy funtime gift-giving bonanza (har fucking har), after dinner was finally over, Bunny managed to politely excuse herself. She wasn't sure where she was going, she just knew she had to get away for a few minutes. She ended up slipping outside, where she headed as far away from the drive and valets as she could get. Once she felt hidden properly in the shadows of a large oak tree, she tried to let go.

It wasn't happening. Dammit.

Bunny had trouble with crying. She didn't let her emotions out that way very often. It came out at the damnedest time. She'd cried on the camping trip, when she felt both humiliated and like the worst kind of asshole on the planet. Why couldn't she cry now? She was sure she would feel better.

( And then all at once she was aware that she wasn't alone. The woman must have moved like a shadow on top of the grass. Bunny never heard a thing. Suddenly she was just there, smelling strongly of birds and treetops and wind, with a sympathetic smile on her face. )

Who: Sebastian and Open
When: Early Evening
Where: Moriarty Party
What: You better make this fabulously more interesting.

Who: Cecilia and Lex
Where: Moriarty party then out on the town
When: Late evening

( You know I trickin like a joke, but you can't tell when I'm joking )

Who: K-lee and Malo (NPC)
When: 11:15 p.m. on
Where: Driving into Scarlet Oak, Liberty Inn

If work hadn't been so hard to come by since the damned Light of May had occurred, then K-lee would have been happy to have all of her things moved by packers while she bought herself a first-class ticket and gave not a second thought to how long it really took to go across the country. Hell, if the Light of May had never happened then she wouldn't have needed to move in the first place! She could've stayed in her luxurious L.A. home with her choice of modeling offers, making the money she'd become accustomed to. But no. Some vampires or whatever had decided it would be a 'good idea to tell the humans' and that was it. Glaring at the empty road ahead of her, K-lee reminded herself that she'd never really liked vampires.

"I hate it when you glare at stuff without talking, makes me nervous," her familiar, Malo, informed her from the passenger seat. It was so weird to be hearing a voice in her head without thinking that she was going crazy, but according to the news that she had seen in hotels, familiars were popping up all over the place. Just another thing to make it obvious that she wasn't a human. Normal people didn't just have a bobcat following them around. "It's only been two days but really, I can't read your mind."

"I'm thinking about how I'd rather be anywhere but here." Even if there was something about the name of the place that had been tugging at her memory since she first heard it nearly a week prior. Something dealing with someone she had known... did she know someone living here? Highly doubt anyone I knew has such bad taste.

( Normal people don't talk to bobcats. Or have them riding around in their passenger seat, which definitely means you're not normal. )

Who: Alanna and Ariana
When: 8:45 p.m.
Where: Organic grocery store

( No promise on staying calm. )

Who: Gareth and Gideon
What: Fucking up over and over again
Where: Gideon's trailer
When: Midnight-ish

( He would leave behind nothing but a cowboy hat and a carton of Camel Reds, and two men who would eventually -- in the eternity of their lives -- remember him only as a fleeting glimpse. )

Who: Hamish, Open to anybody
Where: The Mudhouse
When: Late morning



Hamish was, as usual, in full form as he strolled down the street, whistling to himself and stretching his long legs. He was wearing a lavender pantsuit today, tailored for his thin and lengthy frame and sporting a mint green lapel, cuffs, and pocket liners. His steeply V-necked shirt was pushing the limits of civilized clothing, and strands of lilac and mint colored beads were threaded into his hair, poking their way out of a lilac colored hat with white and silver feathers pointing from one side.

He'd been singing "P-I-M-P" as he walked down the street, in a great mood after his lovely night with Hier, but after a mother gave him a dirty look and ushered her two children across the street and away from him Hamish realized that a Wednesday morning street probably wasn't the best place to tease about the profession, especially not when he was wearing his favorite Pimp Suit - spring edition.

( Wonderful Morning )

Who: Lizzy and Liam
When: Late afternoon, after Lizzy gets off work
Where: Lenore Bookstore and Cafe
What: Cutesauce

( I stood at a distance to feel who you are, hiding myself in your eyes. )

Who: Galen and Natasiya
Where: Moriarty party
When: early evening
What: Galen's test run/possible crash and burn

Galen parted company with Domina as discretely as he’d met up with her, slipping away from her and her proud halo of disdain and adamantine confidence. Her self-satisfaction cleared like a fog from his mood as he put some distance between them and after taking a moment to seclude himself by the refreshment table, slowly resettled to a temperament of his own design. Untouched by the emotions of others, he found he was surprisingly at ease. (Excellent, Ells. A natural freakshow.) He felt good. Domina’s challenge sent of warm thread of anticipation throught him and he thought, for the first time that night, ( This could be fun. )

Who: Renard and Remy
When: 11 P.M.
Where: Their aunt's home

( it's been so long, I don't know what to say )