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Eddie's hair better not be messed up from that explosion, or I SWEAR I will punch someone!!

Update: Oh thank God his hair is perfect!

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Anchestor • 3 years ago

His hair is always messed up. It is the power of the floof.

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Mz.Hyde Mod  Anchestor • 3 years ago

No, it is purposely floofed. There is a difference!

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Anchestor  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago

I thought it was floofy by nature. I mean it's already very messy directly after the transformation.

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Compare the floof after being out and about for a while and the fresh floof. The fresh floof looks a little wetter, and thusly has a little less volume to it. Also, like stated before, it's messier.

Although I will admit that the floof Hyde sports later in the night looks like it has been slightly groomed. Less thin strays, more chunks. So I suppose it's purposely floofed. But it also might be that the transformation is sweaty business, and Hyde's regular floof is the ungroomed dry look.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Anchestor • 3 years ago

This is the best thing I've read all day! Thank you!! XDD

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Anchestor  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

Welcome!

It's nice to hear that my floof analysis amused someone ^^

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Setae  Anchestor • 3 years ago

We are thoroughly amused. (Or atleast I am aswell.)

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Jekyll1886  Anchestor • 3 years ago

It's a thoughtful analysis, and I certainly appreciate it!

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HenryRoseQuartz  Guest • 3 years ago

I can't see why you would ever have been excluded

so...uh...in short, yes!

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Wizardblizzard  Guest • 3 years ago

(Yep, sometimes the intro threads get continued into a new thread when the first one times out if people are still interested, sometimes they just get left. Either way, once you've at least kept an intro thread going for a while, whether it actually got finished properly or not, your character's understood to be here now and can turn up wherever you like. Always the most easy-going of RP places, this.)

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ATasteForVintages  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

Not all characters NEED intro threads though. A handful of us are just. ..there

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Wizardblizzard  ATasteForVintages • 3 years ago

Those are fun

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Miss-Dreamerkat • 3 years ago

(Agreed Mz. Hyde!)

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The Fox • 3 years ago

( Ah! SO since I'm heading to school, I'll wait till I get home to join the rp! Utterson's finally ready for roleplay MADNESS )

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Hyde without a Jekyll  The Fox • 3 years ago

(WOOT!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!!)

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Jekyll1886  The Fox • 3 years ago

((Wait, what?!?! You have an Utterson you're ready to play???

jgdfhofdnlvlfjsdfji

* dances excitedly*))

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Elaina Hyde • 3 years ago

(*angry mumbling* Elaina's going to punch a certain someone if they hurt Helen...)

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Elaina Hyde  Elaina Hyde • 3 years ago

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Jekyll1886  Elaina Hyde • 3 years ago

((No one had better dang well shoot anyone!))

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Elaina Hyde  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

(Elaina is going to try to help and make it worse XD)

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Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(Um...Catt Hatter Mz.Hyde Dr. Jekyll II ( Mother Hen ) ....I could use your guys's help with a shopping trip.......)

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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(Is it time?😏)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago

(Yep! TO THE MALL!!!!)

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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(WOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago

(XDD Let's get this party started!!)

(Mz. Hyde!! I need you to do a shopping run for me if you could....I would do it myself but I can't with the rules and all. Would you mind picking up a present for me a delivering it to one of the lodgers?)

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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

OH GAWD THERE'S ANOTHER ONE!!! HOW MANY OF YOU THINGS ARE THERE!!

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago

(GAH!!! DDDD: Sorry! Sorry!

Well...there's at least a billion+ in our realm but I think about a dozen or so only watch...or in this case interact with you guys...I'M GETTING OFF TOPIC!! I NEED YOU TO BUY MY ORANGE A PRESENT!!)

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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

Who the hell is your "orange"?!

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago

(Oh! Right! Um...Oliver! The redheaded guy in the infirmary! )

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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

You mean the guy with the memory of a fish?

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago • edited

(Wait what--No I mean the guy who has bright red hair and freckles and he's adorable and needs hugs!)

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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

Ohhhhhh.....ok.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago • edited

(Anyways...he has...Nothing. Literally nothing. No clothes, no belongings, nothing. I love him a lot and I want to get him a present....but I can't cause of obvious reasons. :P I was wondering if you could go get it for me?...and maybe some of the other lodgers might want to do a mall/bazar/shopping run too...you know how they are.)

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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

What's in it for me?

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago

(um...bringing joy to the world?...an excuse to go to the mall?)

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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

Fair enough. I'll go find some people!!!

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago

(Yay!! Thank you!! So while you're out and about would you mind buying a nice yellow writing journal that only he would be able to open? That's what I want to give him....I'll owe you a favor if you can do this!)

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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

Sure, that sounds easy enough!

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago

(Thank you!! And good luck!)

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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

I'm buying a notebook, not breaking into the Bank of England!

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago

(I hope not!! A economic crisis is the last thing we need! )

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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

Economic crisis?! SHHHIITTT!

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago

(What did you think would happen if you broke the bank!? ...speaking of which where have you been getting all that money from?)

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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

( I sew and sell outfits to wealthy underlings. )

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago

(That'll do it! I better let you start rounding up the lodgers as they're like herding cats! Have fun and good luck!)

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Wizardblizzard  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(*narrator sweeps a bow* It would be my pleasure to be rounded up in such a cause! But alas, my character has never even heard of Oliver, the ignorant little so and so, although it's possible that that oversight may be about to be put right!)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

( Why thank you!! Currently Elias is in the infirmary so I don't know when she would be meeting him. I'm sure if she heard on the grape vine that Mz. Hyde was planning a shopping trip and wanted to join there would be no complaints!)

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Wizardblizzard  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(Going to have to log off in a minute as it's getting towards bedtime here, but if I come by tomorrow and find stuff happening then that sounds like fun!)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

(Sounds good! And if they make it to the mall tonight [as I highly doubt it] you can always run into them there! :) )

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Dr. Jekyll II ( Mother Hen )  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

Oh good!

Sarashina Hyde

I hope you have your good hiking boots at the ready

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Sarashina Hyde  Dr. Jekyll II ( Mother Hen ) • 3 years ago • edited

...Hell no!

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Dr. Jekyll II ( Mother Hen )  Sarashina Hyde • 3 years ago

Hell yes.

Come on now, we depart in 20 minutes.

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Sarashina Hyde  Dr. Jekyll II ( Mother Hen ) • 3 years ago

Oi ent going on a stupid "shopping spree" Tha's foinal.

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Dr. Jekyll II ( Mother Hen )  Sarashina Hyde • 3 years ago

I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that you're capable of making sound medical decisions. Where did you get your degree from?

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Sarashina Hyde  Dr. Jekyll II ( Mother Hen ) • 3 years ago

Oi dun need one to tell me wot Oi'm gonna do

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Dr. Jekyll II ( Mother Hen )  Sarashina Hyde • 3 years ago

Hmm, I'm not sure the Asylums would agree with you.

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Sarashina Hyde  Dr. Jekyll II ( Mother Hen ) • 3 years ago

You wouldn't dare!

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Dr. Jekyll II ( Mother Hen )  Sarashina Hyde • 3 years ago

You're quite right, I rather dislike seeing people being prodded at like lab rats...but I can't dissuade them from coming if you won't follow my advice. Their treatments are a last resort, as you know.

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Sarashina Hyde  Dr. Jekyll II ( Mother Hen ) • 3 years ago

( Her voice sharpens, venom seeing from the faintest edges. )

And how does your "advice" have the bloo'y hell t'do with anythin' dem roaches r' doin?

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Dr. Jekyll II ( Mother Hen )  Sarashina Hyde • 3 years ago

( A gracious smile answers her venom. )

It is common knowledge that fresh air and socialization do wonders for the humors.

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(*pops down from the ceiling* Oh? what kind of shopping trip?)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(Do you remember the Oliver shopping trip? Well Mz. Hyde is setting it up now if Catt wants to join in!)

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(Oliver shopping trip? I'll see what I can do!)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(thank you!!!)

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Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

Isabella enters the infirmary. Well, they're back at last, she thinks. It's been a long and anxious wait for the people left behind - it had felt as if there hardly was anyone left behind, though in actual fact there must have been at least a dozen of them. From the looks of things, the trouble is far from over with the rescue party's return. Some of these people she doesn't recognise at all, not that she can put a name to everybody at the Society yet, but these she doesn't even recognise the faces.

(I'll let you lot decide at what point this is and who's there, I just want to play! Miss-Dreamerkat Jekyll1886 Tairais chatterghosts, or anyone else (I'm just tagging the likely suspects!), any doctors that are about too for that matter.)

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Miss-Dreamerkat  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

Dreamer sat in her bed crutch at her side, sitting on the edge clutching it, Lizzy stood beside her trying to help her up.

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Wizardblizzard  Miss-Dreamerkat • 3 years ago • edited

Isabella hadn't seen Dreamer since the day the Rose was destroyed. On seeing the two of them, she abandoned thoughts of finding out how the search party had gone down - somebody was bound to tell her soon anyway, she thought, it was the number one topic of conversation - and went over. She frowned in concern. "Miss Dreamer? What's wrong? I thought that spell had been dealt with. I've not been here - I didn't know you were ill."

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Miss-Dreamerkat  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

I went in to a coma shortly after and awoke a few days ago. I'm still not used to my body yet" Dreamer said.

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Wizardblizzard  Miss-Dreamerkat • 3 years ago • edited

Isabella drew in a sharp breath. "That is strange. I'd have come to see you sooner if I'd known. Some kind of last gasp of that wretched spell? I'm very glad if it seems to have finished gasping, anyway. Would you like any help, there?"

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Miss-Dreamerkat  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

"No it was more from i think the weight of everything that happened, the exhaustion, the emotional trauma" Dreamer said.

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Wizardblizzard  Miss-Dreamerkat • 3 years ago

nods, "I can believe it, I can only imagine what a strain it must have been carrying that vicious thing for so long. There are times when the body just insists on stopping until it's done what it needs to... and the mind, too. However did it happen? Or d'you not want to talk about it?"

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Miss-Dreamerkat  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

"What do you mean?" Dreamer asked.

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Wizardblizzard  Miss-Dreamerkat • 3 years ago • edited

((Is what happened to Dreamer, with the rose and the jail and the multiverse guardian, more or less common knowledge at the Society? I'm not sure. If so Isabella can know it already and we don't have to bother about explaining it or not explaining it to her. Telling somebody's character things both players know perfectly well already always tends to be a bit dull! Anyway, off for the night, see you tomorrow.))

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Miss-Dreamerkat  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

(okay! and let's not tell her, it's not really public, it's known)

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Wizardblizzard  Miss-Dreamerkat • 3 years ago • edited

"The rose spell. Never mind. Great thing is that it's gone."

She looked thoughtful. "I wonder if there's some kind of ill effects of using magic when you haven't done it for a long time," she added. "Like someone eating too much after being starved? Me and you both coming down with mystery ailments after using magic for the first time in ages." She laughed, "we ought to make notes about that. Who's looking after you? Dr. Hen?" she asks, naming the only Doctor at the Society that she feels quite sure is a doctor.

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Miss-Dreamerkat  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

"Um, no. Lizzy is, i'm not sure where Dr. Hen is" Dreamer said.

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Wizardblizzard  Miss-Dreamerkat • 3 years ago

Isabella frowned. "I suppose the doctors are run off their feet, with all those people arriving back injured... but I'd have thought you really should have medical attention after something like that. Is there anything I can do to help the two of you? Not that it's exactly what I'm supposed to be trained for... as a nurse or as a magician... but."

((Cynthia's rather taken her opening. Doesn't matter, if necessary they can team up, or scratch each other's eyes out, as the case may be.

By the way, something I've been meaning to say about DeviantArt: if you send me a message there to do with roleplays, let me know on here that that's what you've done, because it doesn't seem to send e-mail notifications reliably so otherwise I may not see it until the next time I happen to log into DA. Probably you already know this (if DA's notifications are like that with everybody), just checking. ))

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Miss-Dreamerkat  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

(okay but where is Isabella?)

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Wizardblizzard  Miss-Dreamerkat • 3 years ago

((well, here I suppose? in the infirmary with them?

By the by, thinking about Cynthia I suppose she's not arrived yet, in this timeline. Or maybe the two threads will join up, now or later, since Cynthia's intro has reached the infirmary and seems to be at a halt.))

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Miss-Dreamerkat  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

(she has she is tending to dreamer. I just didn't want to do a inside response. I guess I could of)

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Wizardblizzard  Miss-Dreamerkat • 3 years ago • edited

((No, no problem (not sure what you mean but go ahead either way). Just thinking aloud. No problem about Cynthia, however she ends up fitting into things I'll deal with it as it comes along!))

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Miss-Dreamerkat  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

(Okay)

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Jekyll1886  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago • edited

((I'd like the interactions with Lewis to be post-Tea Party, if that's okay. He'd be walking with a cane/walking stick, and potentially just checking in on people. If Isabella has any questions about what happened during "The End of an Era", he'd be a good person to ask.))

Lewis entered the infirmary, aiming to see how some of the patients were doing--how they were holding up, what progress they'd made. As he made his way through the doors, he was surprised to see Isabella within.

"Oh," he said. "Good day to you, Miss Walker."

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Wizardblizzard  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited

((That's fine. I never have got the hang of these multi-threaded roleplays. I don't know how to deal with it all - it's awkward not knowing when it is or whether any other person is there for each individual thread, or if this is supposed to be the first time she's been in since they got back, or what? Hoping for the best...

Let's see. The one with Dreamer can be separate and ignoring all the others and probably earlier, and the others can be a bit of time after the search party returned.))

"Good day to you too, Dr Weir. I just came to see how everything was going. What happened to your foot?"

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Jekyll1886  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

"I trust you're familiar with the fact that Elias was kidnapped." He gave a small, self-effacing laugh as he explained, "Unfortunately, one of the kidnapper's gunmen was a tad trigger-happy when I went to parley."

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Wizardblizzard  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

She nods gravely. "I gathered that much. Well, I hope you make a good recovery and I'm glad at least it was no worse... have to admit I was worried about you, wouldn't want you to have come back on a stretcher." Or in a box, she doesn't say.

"Who was it that kidnapped Elias, and why? Do you know? I'm afraid I don't really know that much about him, our paths didn't really cross until all this happened."

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Jekyll1886  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago • edited

"Thank you," replied Lewis, in response to her well wishes. "Sorry to have worried you, though I do appreciate the sentiment."

On the subject of Elias, he admitted:

"I'm afraid I'd met Elias only once before our little expedition. Truthfully, I went because I felt it necessary...and because I thought it bad form for someone to abscond with a member of the Society. The kidnapper's name is Joseph--didn't catch his surname, sad to say--but he won't be troubling the Society any longer. As for motive..." He looked upward with a shake of his head, then gave a short sigh. "I believe Elias would be the best person to ask, to be honest."

He cast his gaze over the infirmary beds.

"How's everyone doing, by the by?"

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Wizardblizzard  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

Isabella seemed oddly pleased with Lewis's explanation of his motives, if motives you could call them.

She shook her head when Lewis asked how everyone was. "You probably know as much as I do, I only just came in myself - all I can say is that most of them look as if they don't want to be woken up! Shall we better go somewhere else?"

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Jekyll1886  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

Lewis took the hint.

"Yes, that would be best, I think."

They left the infirmary.

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Wizardblizzard  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"What did happen? Not wishing to pry -" Lies, all lies - "but for one thing, I've seen four people around the place all with bandaged right hands. How is that? Whatever did happen," she added, "it seems to have thoroughly got in among poor Dr Prince. I can't really imagine him taking part in something like that; I wouldn't have had him down as the fighting type." But she observed Lewis's expression very carefully as she said this.

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Jekyll1886  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

He raised his brows, in particular at her last statement. The expression was part conspiratorial, part "You have no idea..."

"You didn't hear this from me," he said in a hushed tone, "but that Joseph fellow I mentioned... 'Turns out he's a magic user, and cast a linking spell on the persons you see who have injured hands. I didn't get every detail, but this was part of the revenge he sought against Elias. Richard wasn't part of that, thankfully, but he did get the worst of it from Joseph's bravos when he went in to attempt a rescue. He's scrappier that he appears."

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Wizardblizzard  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"I've heard of spells like that. I can imagine - nasty," agreed Isabella. At Lewis's words about Richard, she nodded thoughtfully several times, and said nothing for a while.

She shook her head in exasperation. "I haven't been a lot of use, have I?" she added, apparently inconsequently. "When you all set off to look for Elias I wasn't even here, let alone doing anything to help. Somebody had to stay behind, I suppose, but even now everyone's back, I'm about as much good as an umbrella stand in the desert. And I think there's more trouble to come."

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Jekyll1886  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago • edited

"It's only by chance I happened to be here myself," confessed Lewis, "else I would've missed it, too. It's not as if Joseph sent engraved invitations," he said with a chuckle. "'I've kidnapped Elias. Meet at a dodgy workhouse at 4 p.m. sharp. R.S.V.P. by noon.'" He smiled, then sighed. "I wouldn't worry about it greatly. You're certainly needed now, what with the infirmary full up. Heaven knows Hen and Alano need all the help they can get. And, if it's not too much to ask," he added, "I'd love to have a proper discussion about magic with you. When you've the time."

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Wizardblizzard  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

((I find myself in a very complicated situation OOC. If you don't mind I'm going to e-mail you, I think I need someone else's advice on what to do about all the above and there's far too much of it to stick in here!))

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Jekyll1886  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

((Sounds good. I'll be offline the next few hours, but back on later tonight.))

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Jekyll1886  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

((By the way, he'd be willing to speak more candidly in private.))

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Tairais  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

(( I love the fact Richard is a likely suspect XD Dunno why, it just made me giggle. ))

Richard glanced over at the sound of footsteps near the door, instinctively tensing and preparing to fight as well he could in his weakened state. Upon seeing Isabella, he relaxed, though only just.

Gods, places of healing like these seldom were for him. He wished he could leave, wished he could summon enough energy to push off the thought of disappointing Elias long enough to just shut himself in his room for a few days to heal away from the lingering smell of antiseptic and cleaning products.

He clenched his jaw and stared at the ceiling again, memories flickering under glassy eyes as he wandered back into thought. If Isabella wanted to chat, she'd have to start it. He was at the point where all possible courses of action were merely reaction.

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Wizardblizzard  Tairais • 3 years ago

((Well, just at the moment, if there's things going on, there's a good

chance they involve Richard! :-) Did you know Richard's the cover picture for

"Main Story" on the front page of the wiki?

By the way I'm assuming Richard will have contrived to cover up his face by now? he usually does.))

Isabella stopped beside Richard's bed. "hello Dr Prince. Sorry to see you in bed. Do you need anything?"

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Tairais  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago • edited

He blinked slowly, in a gesture as unguarded and surprised as he'd get.

There were a surprising number of people visiting him. Had he done someth- well, he had done something, several somethings, even, but nothing these visitors would know about.

Probably.

He shook his head, smiling in his usual, roundabout way.

"N-nothing I c-can think of, t-thank y-you though!" He tilted his head, considering. "Is t-there s-something I can h-help you with?"

Curiouser and curiouser.

(( edit: No I did not! Oh my gosh, I'm not sure how to feel about that XD ))

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Wizardblizzard  Tairais • 3 years ago

Isabella winced slightly at the question. A less observant or less puzzled man might not have noticed, but she seemed to be trying not to say several things in reply.

She looked away, taking a moment before answering; but the urge to confide in someone seemed to have got the better of her. "Oh, I don't know. I'm always stuck being the one asking people if they can help me. I haven't been a lot of use since I came here, have I? When all this happened, I wasn't even here, let alone did anything. And I think there's more storms brewing yet..." She shook her head. "By the way," she added, "I suppose it's all over the Society by now about me being a witch?"

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Tairais  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

He had nodded in empathetic understanding, right up until her last statement, which had caused him to freeze in his unearthly still way, mind darting for the appropriate look for this occasion. Normally, it wouldn't have taken him as long to pick the right mask, but, well.

He was really rather exhausted, especially for someone who hadn't moved much for several days.

He settled on the appearance of a man taking the news in stride, inclining his head in curiosity and consideration. "P-perhaps it is. I w-would n-not k-know, d-due to m-my.. r-recent absences."

Should he say something comforting? Perhaps not. He adopted a relaxed posture that invited elaboration without looking maliciously intrigued.

Curiouser and curiouser.

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Wizardblizzard  Tairais • 3 years ago • edited

(( chatterghosts I wasn't meaning to freeze you out, by the way, just taking the two threads as happening together - I like it better not having everything in separate timelines if I don't have to. Forgot to tag you before. So feel free to step into this at some point if you want to. ))

Isabella was thinking much the same. That got his attention, she thought. Well, it would get most people's, except perhaps here in the Society. But it was rare enough for Dr Prince to give any hint at all of what he was thinking; and she had her reasons for not wanting to miss any such hint when she stumbled on one.

She gave a little laugh, as if apologising for being dramatic - but stuck to her statement. "A witch of a sort. I am who I said I was. I really am studying science. I've barely thought about the 'family business' in years. But... yes," with a wry smile, "I did say I was from Lancashire!" (It occured to her too late that Dr Prince was clearly foreign and would probably not have the least idea what the joke was meant to be.)

"We are what we are. My family have been magicians since for ever and if I run across things, well, somebody has to deal with them. There was a kind of ...magical accident involving Miss Dreamer, and I stepped in to try and help, not that I achieved much. Bought an extra minute or two, maybe."

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chatterghosts  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

The scuffle of footsteps— of another visitor was the last thing Elias wanted right now. What were these damn people so interested in?

Alice had been enough for him. He was ready to hobble back to his room and...

...

and nothing, because that wasn't an option either.

He quickly rolls over, drawing his knees to his chest and trying to appear asleep.

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Wizardblizzard  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

((*Narrator deals with this by kicking two threads together. Its footwork is improving slightly.*))

Isabella catches sight of the movement as she comes in and stifles a grin. She's spent too many hours in hospital wards not to recognise someone playing dead when she sees it.

And to be able to distinguish someone who didn't want to be disturbed from someone who did want to be disturbed. Pretending not to notice anything about Elias, she walks on to where Richard is.

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Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

(Drunky MacDrunkerson Returns!! Jekyll1886 )

The air was cool and bitter, it vibrated off the cobblestone streets and the wind made the buildings creak and groan complaining like bitter old men. The sun had fallen, giving way to night and the moon's shining brilliance fell upon Soho giving it a ghostly atmosphere. While many of the affluent bodies of the city had taken to their beds but Soho was forever lively as though the stars were each individual suns keeping the people awake and working. While the mud phoenixes huddled together for warmth they cast a flickering light upon a building--a brothel.

A man stood in the shadows, cloaked in darkness. He had fixed his position there every day and night, never moving, never flinching, always waiting. His posture was alert discounting the two (or maybe it was three) flasks he had emptied.

There! He heard it under the cries of the night! A familiar voice, one that belonged to a serpent. It was finally time for that snake, that harbinger of demise to finally answer to him. He would not let his prey escape him this time. No. He was a hawk and hawks eat snakes for breakfast.

Taking one last swig from his lucky flask he strode into the building, shoulders back, chin up, eyes alert and searching. Come out! Come out! Where ever you are, little worm! There's only so many holes to curl up in and only so many rocks to hide under. He would find him, upon his honor, this would end tonight.

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Jekyll1886  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

With the aid of his walking stick, Lewis made his way into the house of ill repute. (His foot had mostly healed, but, barring divine intervention or another untimely death, it would never be as it once had.) As it was, he made his way in from the cold and took off his hat, scarf, gloves, and paletot, storing them in their accustomed place. He and the madam exchanged pleasant greetings. She then informed him he needed to examine one of the employees, who'd fallen ill earlier that day. She didn't want fever spreading, after all. He nodded, and she left to tend to other duties.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

He could smell the fear of his prey. He could feel the hunt coursing through his veins. He felt alive! Revenge is sweetest served in any form. He reached out and brushed his hand against a wall, everything seem to point to the serpent that had plunged it's venomous fangs into his life. Finally he would be able to cut down the head of this snake once in for all.

He stood on the other side of the door now, and that sickly voice drifted to him. Yes, he was there on the other side. The foot steps of the madam retreated and faded. It was silent now except for his heart vigorously pumping blood and the air circulating in his lungs.

He closed his eyes and inhaled the scent of excitement. It was time.

Opening his eyes, wild with fire, he threw open the door, "There's my golden goose!" He sneered.

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Jekyll1886  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

Weir'd become aware of a slightly familiar presence as he'd approached the bordello. It'd crept closer as he and the madam had spoken. He'd felt a change in its energy shortly after she'd left.

At least she's in the clear.

Not ten seconds later, the incompetent (and former) Silver Feather Man burst in.

Golden goose? thought Lewis. His confusion at the newcomer's phrasing helped mask the lack of surprise Weir felt at the fellow's arrival.

"Oh," he said, turning. "It's you...what's-your-name."

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited

He was a bit peeved that his arch-nemesis hadn't even the honor to know his name, never the less it did give him the upper hand that something was still sacred and untouched by his slime.

"Yes, it's me." He slurred, "And do you know who you are? Or did you forget that too, you ass!"

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Jekyll1886  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

Drunky MacDrunkerson, decided Lewis in his head. That's who this fellow was.

"By all means," returned Weir, the smirk on his lips broadening into a grin, "please...enlighten me as to who I am."

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited

An invitation! How thoughtful! His sneer widened and rage slowly seeped into it.

"You were supposed to be my golden goose! I was finally going to get that damn promotion! But no!! You couldn't just lay down and give in! You had to play cat and mouse! I told my superior about you but he thought it was a gilded egg I was offering him! Ha! As if I would be so underhanded!

Then you turn up on my assignment bursting out of the damn wardrobe like some demented life size cuckoo clock, and knock me out! Next thing I know I'm tied up and gagged with a pounding headache inside the damn thing!

On the icing on top is when I returned for my debriefing I'm fired!!!!"

His face was a flame, "So I waited to get my revenge," a hysterical giggle flitted off his tongue, "I knew it would rain one day and your tiny worm head would show it self! You couldn't hide in your own shit forever without smelling your own rank stench!"

As he ranted the space between Weir and the man closed, though it took much longer as Weir seemed to shift the floor under his feet so he would always be just out of reach. In reality Drunky was staggering from side to side, not unlike landlubber's first time on the high seas. It was very unlikely that he could walk in a straight line no matter how hard he tried.

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Jekyll1886  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

Weir raised an eyebrow and gave an amused chuckle.

"You're the one who burst in while I was in the middle of performing a Caesarian section and chose to follow me home! What followed is of your own making. But since you feel the need for," he barely stifled a guffaw, "'revenge', go ahead. Use your fists. We'll go outside, and I'll give you one clean shot. Just the one." A pause. "Unless you're afraid of losing to a cripple," he added, just to bait him.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited

"You may be crippled in body but you're poison is just as deadly as ever!" He had finally closed the distance enough to get a good look at the thorn in his side. Most decidedly his eyes were by far the worst thing about the devil. Those deep soul sucking pits that lied underneath the green vegetation around them. It was a trap and something carnivorous lay at the bottom of it all. There was no regret. "Who says we even need to go outside?"

Quick as a humming bird, his fist flew through the air and hit....

nothing. The damn man had somehow dodged the blow entirely during the time he had blinked. His body weight carried him forward on an unforeseen course through the space that was the foyer.

In sobering reality, Lewis didn't move at all. He hadn't needed to. Drunky had missed him by a mile and the look of shock on his face was enough to make a blind man laugh.

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Jekyll1886  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

True to his word, Lewis let the man take his best shot.

Not that it did him any good.

Lewis beheld the bloke on the floor and leaned over slightly, tilting his head at him.

"Feeling a bit 'tipsy', are we?" Weir asked with a catlike smile.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"Just a tish...inebriated!" He grunted as he struggled up from the unforgiving floor. He was going to have bruises in the morning, that he was sure of. "I bet you did something to me! I can hold my drink like any damn man of London! You probably got into my head just like you got into my boss's!" He threw his hands up and went into a defensive stance, locking eyes with the devil. Those wretched eyes.

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Jekyll1886  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

Weir didn't see fit to interfere as Drunky got up. He was honestly curious whether the man could stand.

"'Got into your head'?" echoed Lewis. "And your...boss's?" he asked, honestly perplexed.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited

He swayed from side to side, shifting the weight form one foot to the other. Though, it was hard to tell if this was purposeful. "Don't play innocent with me! I know what you are, you damn Cowbird! You got into our heads with your mind tricks! You and your...." He hesitated for a moment, "your damn freaky eyes!"

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(*shifting, not sifting)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(Already got that one if you refresh but thank you!)

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(Oh, sorry!)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(You're fine! I appreciate it all the same as you know I need all the spelling help I can get! :D )

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(I'm happy to offer my services! ^^; )

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Jekyll1886  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

Better a cowbird than a dodo... thought Lewis.

"Mind tricks..." he said to himself with a laugh, shaking his head. The very thought!

At Drunky's comment about his eyes, Lewis stiffened briefly. His gaze narrowed, then returned to normal as he raised a brow.

"Excuse me?" he asked with a smile which conveyed not warmth but irritation, lips drawn to his teeth.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited

His lips spread in triumph. Finally he found a hole in the serpents scales, all that's left to do is plunge his sharpened dagger into it and twist.

"You heard me!" He cooed raising his hands ever so slightly as to protect his body and face, "You. Have. Damn. Freaky. Eyes. Dr. Weird!" He accented each word and made sure any drunken slur was removed so his nemesis had no difficulty understanding him.

((On a side note I just want to say that I love how the 10 line side character from Forgiveness that really only had a tiny purpose now has a fan club!! XDD I don't know exactly why you guys love this ass hole but I'm glad you do!! ))

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(Easy guilt-free punching bag!)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(I'll put him on a chain and have a sign that says "Punch me." hanging around his neck for you guys after this!)

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(Nah, that's too easy! Leave him running around for plot contrivances to run over!)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(Hey! What happens to Drunky is up to you guys! He's got no restrictions placed on him! So if you want to hang him up and use him as a punching bag by all means do so!)

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(The punching-bag comment was hyperbole, but thank you!)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

( XD I sometimes can't tell with you guys! Besides he's about to become a punching bag for Weir. That name comment right there...in his bio it says he hates that name. :)))))) )

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

( Don't worry, sometimes neither can we. *grabs popcorn* Can't wait! I remember seeing that, and making a mental note to avoid it.)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(Oh this is going to be so good!!! *steals a piece of popcorn and eats it* )

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(Yeah! *moves bag so it's easier for you to reach*)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(Thank you! *begins all the munching!* )

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(De nada! *munch-munch*)

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Jekyll1886  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

Without warning, there was an image in the drunk man's head, an image of Lewis leaping upon him, Weir's thumbs gouging out the eyes, the blood trickling from the sockets as a howl of pain rang out from the former Silver Feather Man.

"That joke was funny the first time I heard it, laddie. Not the fifty-first."

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Catt Hatter  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited

(Yikes! 0.0 He really pulls no punches with the thought projection!

Or was that actually happening?)

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Jekyll1886  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

((If you refresh your page you'll see I've put part of the post within spoiler tags. Please, if possible, would you mind doing the same for "thought projection" in yours? It isn't common knowledge, and he's not even aware he's doing it.))

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Catt Hatter  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

(Sorry! I see it now!)

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Jekyll1886  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

((Thanks! I appreciate it! :-) ))

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Catt Hatter  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

(No problem!)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited

His blood turned to ice as the scene played out behind his eyes. His hands lowered and his body trembled slightly. After the horror ended he looked back at the thing before him. Those carnivorous pits seemed to have grown in size as their master commanded the dark beast to creep out for yet another victim.

His voice shook as though trying to remove the fear that had taken up residence in his vocal cords, "M-m-mind tricks!!!," his voice started off as a mere whimper and grew to a terrified scream, "H-he was right again!!! MIND TRICKS!!!!"

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Jekyll1886  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

While not displeased with the drunkard's initial, nonverbal reaction, Weir hadn't been expecting it. He'd honestly thought he'd get something more along the lines of a repetition of the offending pun, or perhaps more bird metaphors. (Why was the man so fond of them?) But the look in the fellow's eyes...

Cold realization sank through Lewis; the bottom of his stomach felt as if it'd dropped right down to his feet. The way the man paled, the fear in his gaze, the trembling...

Lewis likely hadn't kept his thoughts entirely private. This suspicion was confirmed when the fellow spoke. The shaken voice, the accusation--

He? Weir wondered to himself, no further thoughts carrying over now that he was aware of what he'd unwittingly done. Who the bloody Hell is "he"?

But Drunky was set to make a scene. Lewis knew he had to put a stop to it, and fast.

Quick as a whip, he swung the cane up and poked the man right in the chest with the end of it, bracing himself against a nearby sofa so he wouldn't topple. He was counting on Mr. MacDrunkerson's current state of inebriation--and gravity--to keep the bloke from fighting or bolting, the two typical responses.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited

The demon's jab sent him tumbling backwards and into the sofa. Though, truth be known, blowing upon Drunky would have had the same effect. This was no doctor that stood before him but a vampire finch. He lured his superior in with its sweet songs only latch on and drain him of his life force...and now it was his turn. He was going to be its next victim!

The fear bubbled inside of him and combined with the violent fall it all came rumbling out. The man doubled over and expelled the contents of his stomach onto the floor. Granted, this was bound to happen any ways as his choice in drink was more akin to paint remover than liqueur. He was helpless now to the monster before him. Completely prone and unable to scream, choked by his own confidence.

(And in case you were wondering vampire finches are a real thing. http://listverse.com/2013/0... )

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Jekyll1886  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

Well, observed Lewis silently. That went better than I expected.

"Mind tricks, eh?" he asked, pulling a syringe from his pocket as he came closer. "Say, here's one," he said, readying it. He plunged it into MacDrunkerson's neck. "You are getting sleeepy..." He depressed the plunger. "Vehhry sleeepyyyy..." He finished, capped it, and put it back in his pocket. He looked the man over. "You're asleep," Weir pronounced.

He could leave him here while he tended to the sick lass down the hall. A servant would clean the mess, and leave Drunky be. He'd given him only a small amount of sedative, but it and the alcohol would do the trick. The former Silver Feather Man would go nowhere.

* * *

Eventually, Dr. Weir returned. He gave MacDrunkerson another small dose from the syringe, then pondered what to do. He needed to question him, to find out who else was aware of his ability, as well as what further things they might know.

A plan took shape in his mind.

He left to make arrangements.

* * *

Some time later, a woman wearing the telltale dress of a demimondaine sought the aid of Monty, The Velvet Orchid's part-time bouncer. (He was only around in the wee hours, when things were more likely to get unruly.) He helped her move her "beau" from the sofa and into a hansom, then went back inside.

* * *

It was nearly dawn by the time Dr. Weir returned to the upscale bordello to check on his patient. Luckily, her fever had broken. She would live.

As he went to fetch his coat, his stomach noisily reminded him that he hadn't eaten the entire night.

May as well get something now.

He headed through a door connecting this building to the one adjacent; the two structures shared a common wall. Lewis gave a nod to the kitchen staff as he passed; he wasn't an unfamiliar sight. Continuing on into the restaurant proper, he was shown to a table, and took a seat.

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Jekyll1886  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

(( HenryRoseQuartz ))

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HenryRoseQuartz  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

( As only the faintest hint of a lighter blue touches the sky, a small feminine body stirs from a trundle connected a bed containing a young looking girl and...where was the giant?

They sigh sadly.

At this hour the air is sure to be frigid, a far cry from the toasty shelter of the sheets.

Still, those tummy rolls aren't going anywhere fast.

Reluctantly, he rises and taps her gently on the shoulder. )

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago • edited

( Stormy green eyes snap wide open, the occupant of the bigger bed flinching visibly. She says nothing, but they speak volumes for the silent voice. )

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( Gently )

I'm sorry dear, I didn't mean to startle you. I was just getting ready to go on a daily walk and I was wondering if you would be interested in joining me.

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

( At this, the girl relaxes. She speaks, but her voice is crackly and laden with sleep. )

...wh-what time is it?

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

About 5:30, perfect time for some quick morning exercise!

It's always best to go when the air is cool, what do you say?

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago • edited

Uh....sure?

( "STRANGER DANGER SILVER!

STRANGER.

DANGER.!!!!!!

Well at least SOMEONE was awake. )

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

Alright! let's start with some stretches!

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

( She clumsily lumbers out of bed and mimics his movements before holing herself up in the closet and shutting the doors. She emerges when the both of them have dressed more decently. )

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( When she re enters the room, he is found brushing out the kinks in his hair by the vanity. When he finishes, he combs it back into a tight ponytail and begins curling his bangs. ) A little cramped in there isn't it?

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago • edited

( Silver's hands travel to her hair.

"You can't braid. What are you going to do?"

They wander awkwardly back down to her sides. )

I can't very well send you into the hall now can I?

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( His eyes travel to her hair. )

Need some help?

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

No no no I'm okay!

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( Everything in her body language betrays her helplessness.

Is she even trying to mask it or is she being passive aggressive?

He settles for carefully crafted incredulity, his dark eyes sparkling with gentle disappointment. )

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

I....don't wanna mess with your...routine

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( He rises, vacating the Vanity stool. )

It's quite alright, the curls need time to set anyway.

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

oh....okay

( She reluctantly takes the seat. )

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( Just as soon as she is seated, he aggressively brushes through her hair before parting it. )

I take it that you wear a French braid?

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

How did you know?

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

I can tell by the way your hair is growing. Lots of kinky locks here.

I also imagine that it would be rather difficult to practice such a complicated weave on yourself.

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

I...guess

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( Although she probably knows, he feels an obligation to apologize. )

I'm terribly sorry dear, but this is going to hurt something awful.

( He sharply yanks Silver's hair back and begins parting it, weaving the chunks in and out of each other. )

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

( White hot pain shoots through her scalp as he works, breath hitching in her lungs and nails digging sharply into the tuffet. Strained. )

I know.

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( Not wanting the pain to last any longer than it must, he finishes the braid quickly and tucks it into a nice bun. )

There. All done!

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

( Just as soon as he finishes, she rises from the stool and dons her winter apparel- all while sleep claws at the edges of her consciousness.

She'd be due for a nap later on. )

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( With all their morning preparations made, he leads them outside the room, down the halls and onto the foyer floor- their shoes making a muted clacking noise in the absence of the other Lodgers. He makes his way to the door and opens it. )

After you M'lady.

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

( She curtseys. )

Thank you!

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( He extends an arm with a friendly smile, waiting patiently for her to cross the threshold. )

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

( Silver glances back to the dormant home. Far above them, on the very top floor, she can see a familiar Amazonian silhouette pacing its beat. She flashes the lone vigilante a warm smile before accepting the fellow's arm and disappearing behind the double doors. )

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( He leads the pair down the lamplit streets, the early glow of dawn only just barely arriving and not nearly enough to rob the lanterns of their warm earthy light. They wind through street after street, moments melting into minutes with the ease of conversation. )

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

( She admires the lovely ambiance that the lighting provides, secretly wishing the sun would never blind the cozy streets with its sterile scorching light. She notices the streets growing more ragged, cobblestones getting rougher and far less loved than the paving of the streets before.

She recognized these roads.

Except....

Something about the scene seems more alluring than the one before, the people here more inviting.

In truth, she mostly listens- wishing wholeheartedly that she could push her sluggish mind to think of something to say.

The man before her seems delightful company.

It's a shame he picked such a bore. )

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( The gentle lull of small talk ends abruptly with a question. )

Say, are you hungry?

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

Mm?

( She'd hardly noticed the sour ache growing in the pit of her gut with the fog threatening to entrap her in a series of strange unrelenting dreams. )

I...guess so, why do you ask?

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

Nothing in particular, we've simply been walking for....over an hour and I think I see a rather attractive establishment across the street.

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

( The corner of her lip curls into a doubting half-sneer. )

Here? in this town?

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

Of course! why not?

Escorts need to eat too. What do you say we pop in and see if they serve early?

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

alriiiiiight

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

Excellent!

( He starts on his way across the street. )

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago • edited

( She rushes past him, bolting across the street to the café he gestured to and swinging the door wide open for him. )

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago • edited

( He raises an eyebrow, amusement flashing across his features. )

Chivalry from a woman. That's quite new.

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Jekyll1886  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

The interior of La Rose Vivante was warmly lighted without being offensively bright, given the earliness of the hour. The style of decoration was an odd but welcoming combination of luxurious, whimsical, and quaint--a bit like visiting an upper-middle-class home in provincial France. Each oaken table had proper cloth and was decorated with a sprig of dried lavender in a little vase painted with roses. (In warmer weather, these would've held the restaurant's namesake flower.)

At one such table--toward the back wall and just left of center as one entered--sat Lewis, facing the door. He looked up from his tea to see Henry Rose make his way in, followed shortly by Silver Carew.

I'd no idea they frequented this place, he thought with surprise. A soft smile graced his features.

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Silverliné Carew  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

( As Silver closes the door behind them, her eyes come alight with recognition. She leans in towards the man, her voice low. )

Look who's here.

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( As if the sun had already risen, the air warms with the doctor's smile. )

Indeed!

Shall we say hello?

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

Oh I dunno, he seems kind of busy and he's probably finished his meal...

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( In one swift motion, he takes her arm and guides her over to the table. )

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

Oh okay, well this is happening

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( Lewis is soon greeted by the pair and a simple phrase. )

Fancy seeing you here!

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Jekyll1886  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

"Indeed," he returned, politely rising at their approach. He shook hands with Dr. Rose and gave a small bow of his head to Miss Carew. With a gentle, sweeping motion to the empty chairs at his table, he offered, "Have a seat, won't you?" and pulled one out for Silver.

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Silverliné Carew  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

Aw thank you! ( Silver quietly slips into the seat and scoots her chair in. )

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Jekyll1886  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago • edited

Weir assisted her in the scoot. It was what gentlemen did, after all.

He took his seat as well.

"Ever breakfasted here before?"

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HenryRoseQuartz  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

( He promptly takes his own seat. )

I don't believe we have! is there something we ought to know about the menu?

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Jekyll1886  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago • edited

"It's moderately to significantly priced--the food's good quality, even if Soho's a little...less so. Also, they've a house 'special-tea': a black tea with essence of bergamot, Provence lavender, and a hint of..." he smiled, brow raising ever so slightly, "rose. Quite enjoyable, if it's to one's taste. They call it 'Thé de Nantes', in honor of Henri the Fourth. Huguenot-owned, this place."

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HenryRoseQuartz  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

That sounds delightful! What an interesting blend!

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Jekyll1886  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

"Mm," agreed Lewis. "I must admit to a particular fondness for it, myself." He cast a glance at his cup and back to Rose.

Just then, a waiter arrived at their table. He distributed menus, then took the newcomers' drink order.

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Silverliné Carew  Guest • 3 years ago

( Not at all noticing the exchange, Silver eyes the menu with an unusual intensity. Although her expression is blank, a familiar heat prickles at the back of her neck.

"water. You'll be drinking water for the rest of your life." )

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HenryRoseQuartz  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( Inky eyes soften if only briefly before he turns to the waiter. )

Before you begin, I'd like to put us all on one tab

( As he speaks, he gestures to his chest.

He hoped they'd understand the implication. )

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Jekyll1886  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago • edited

Lewis wouldn't contradict him in front of the waiter, but raised a brow ever so slightly, a mild look of surprise and curiosity.

Once the server had gone, he asked Henry a question:

"It's generous--downright generous--of you, Dr. Rose...but are you certain?"

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HenryRoseQuartz  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

( He nods with a bubbling chuckle. )

I assure you it's no trouble at all!

It's not often that I'm granted the opportunity to share a meal with friends and I would like to think that my position is meant for sharing.

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Jekyll1886  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago • edited

"That's a noble sentiment," Weir opined approvingly. "You have my sincerest thanks."

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HenryRoseQuartz  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

It's my great pleasure.

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Jekyll1886  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago • edited

Lewis smiled and gave a nod of gratitude.

A possibility crossed his mind.

"Speaking of sharing, would you mind if I asked you to speak of your profession? I must admit, your field of study intrigues me."

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HenryRoseQuartz  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

Not at all!

As I'm sure you know, the idea of talking people through their problems is a rather new one. In fact, some might even go as far as to call it a rogue science.

Most doctors still advocate punishment as an encouragement to...oh what is it they say? "choose rationally?"

I myself would like to think that if we could just stop diagnosing and listen, we'll find the answer soon enough.

Psychology is the pursuit of peace and I can only hope that it will become the way of the future.

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Jekyll1886  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago • edited

"Simply...talking through problems? What a fascinating approach! I'll admit I've had to do something similar with my subjects or patients, from time to time. Does it work well, do you find?"

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HenryRoseQuartz  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

It works well enough. The tougher ones need a little bit more encouragement of course, but I think it makes a difference.

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Jekyll1886  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

"Interesting. Is psychology something which would benefit only the mentally ill, or would this 'talk' you speak of have other applications?" He was well aware how a good friend's advice could help settle one's mind, lend a sense of perspective. Damn, I miss John.

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HenryRoseQuartz  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

Psychology is for everyone. Just as a nice cup of chamomile warms the soul, therapy can also help clear the mind- any mind.

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Jekyll1886  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago • edited

"And are psychologists, like medical doctors, obliged to keep what they hear under the seal of their profession?"

The waiter returned with their beverages. He took their order, then took his leave of them.

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HenryRoseQuartz  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

( He graciously accepts his drink, curling his chubby fingers around the house blend to absorb its warmth. )

Absolutely, like a trusted friend!

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Jekyll1886  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago

Lewis took a sip of tea, visibly relaxing. Though surely that was just from the soothing warmth of the flavorful brew. Surely.

"Excellent," he said with a nod, eyes locked with Rose's. He could've been simply referring to the tea. Who could say?

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HenryRoseQuartz  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

( Rose returns the gaze, eyes twinkling merrily. Without breaking eye contact, he takes a sip of his own tea. )

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Jekyll1886  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago • edited

The conversation continued pleasantly, though it turned to other topics. Silver, Henry, and Lewis enjoyed a delightful meal in each other's company. Eventually, however, Weir had to take his leave--he had pressing business. He thanked Dr. Rose once more, and gave him one of his cards, should they wish to speak further on matters psychological.

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HenryRoseQuartz  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

( Upon Lewis's departure, he tucks the card into his vest and the pair continue chatting until the sun has fully risen. Placing the appropriate amount of notes on the table, he returns Silver to the Society. )

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Silverliné Carew  HenryRoseQuartz • 3 years ago • edited

( Home.

Thankfully, Silver trudges up the stairs and to the room where she promptly collapses on the bed. )

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ATasteForVintages  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

HE'S FUNNY

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Hyde without a Jekyll  ATasteForVintages • 3 years ago • edited

(XDDD And probably about to hurt a lot too after that remark!! )

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(*landlubber)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(ty!!)

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Catt Hatter  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

(*Frustrated Narrator noises.*)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(You okay there?)

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(I offered to fix his foot, darn it!!!)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(Let him be. It adds character and I think it's grown on him!)

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(Graaahhh! *beats a wall*)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(Shhhh... plus it makes this scene all the more comical!)

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(But I don't want his foot to be broken! I want him to be well! *Grumbles* Maybe I should have Elder throw him into a wall or something. That'd fix it, albeit the hard way. *grumbles*)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

( O.O No killing Lewis again please.... As for him being well he's going to do what he's going to do, you've gotta let him be his own person. And as Drunky may say "Sometimes you've gotta push the hatching out of the nest to see if it flies." )

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

( *grumbles* I know. *grumbles* Confound my morals and decision to let characters have their own will! *kicks the wall*

I disagree with Drunky on that point, or at the very least I hate that it is sometimes necessary. But I don't think Lewis counts as a hatchling.)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(*pat pat* I mean Drunky's not the most sound guy to listen to but he does have a point where if we control everything than nothing is new or interesting. The world would be boring with out a touch of choas and lack of control to make our days interesting and push our limits!)

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(*grumble-ball* Why do you think I enjoy talking and writing with this group so much? There's so much more fun to be had without total control!)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(*puts blanket over grumble ball* Exactly!! And that's also what makes Drunky so fun as I have no clue what you lot are going to do to him!! :DDD )

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(*It was super effective! Grumble-ball is asleep!* Well, as of now I'm waiting for Lewis to finish his turn, so I can have some fun! Assuming he survives well enough.)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(Hey if he doesn't I can always play an asshole mailman/milkman/other person!! No complaints here about that! :DD )

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(So, you'll be the puppeteer for once-off jerks who get a Fatality from needed plot disasters?)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(YES!!! ANY DAY OF THE WEEK!! SIGN ME UP!!! :DDD)

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(Perfect! :D )

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The Fox • 3 years ago

( I'm home! Now how exactly do I join the rp? owo;; )

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Dr. Jekyll II ( Mother Hen )  The Fox • 3 years ago

however you wish

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Hyde without a Jekyll  The Fox • 3 years ago

(You can start a introduction RP or you can just start joining things as you go. You have Utterson so he's probably known by the lodgers [but they may not have met him] so you have a ton of options here.)

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The Fox  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

( I think I'll start an introduction rp. )

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Hyde without a Jekyll  The Fox • 3 years ago

(Awesome! I'll see you there then! :D )

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chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited

For periods that Elias was both conscious and unconscious and...Oliver for, people had been trickling in and out of the infirmary.

He was past ready for Hen to come in and say, "We can fix your shin and you can leave." He didn't want to be here, or around Alice, or Nicolette, or Susan. And Arty was being eerily calm about the entire thing. Cold anger? Probably.

He just wanted to leave, and he couldn't, because he didn't know if he would even be able to get around.

But..uh, leaving got you taken away in the first place, didn't it?

Wh-- you're here too? Seriously, I just want to be alone! But noooo, the world just decides that I can't even have some peace in my own head.

...well, um, yeah, I guess. Did you really think it'd work in the first place?

..no.

I'll....um, I'll be quiet, but maybe could you not run off? Please?

Oh, great. Now he was negotiating with himself.

He huffed out a breath, clenching and unclenching his jaw. It wasn't fair. Arty was gone. Nicolette was gone. Susan was gone. Richard was g--

..Richard was still here.

Richard. Sh*t, I said he couldn't leave!

Elias drew himself up into a seating position slowly, looking over towards him. He couldn't tell from his place whether or not Richard was awake, and he damn well wasn't going to try and get up, so...

A quiet call. "Richard? Are you awake?"

see more

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Hyde without a Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

(Tairais Oh boy!! :DDD )

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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

(( @HJ (cos I'm on mobile and can't tag): Oh boy!!! ))

Was he? The fact that he could hear and respond to Elias suggested as such, but his body felt far away. And there was always the chance of this being a reconstruction in his mind, though he wasn't sure why he'd imagine the lingering illness in his stomach that had nothing to do with his injuries, which were, unsurprisingly, still fighting him, though not as severely as before.

"... Y-yes, I believe so. I am not certain. M-most likely."

A child's voice, hesitant, uncertain, uneasy. Memories of needles and burning pain. Acrid fear and lingering panic, burning in his veins, his throat.

Petrichor and ozone.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Tairais • 3 years ago

(Hehehe!!! I'm glad you were able to find it! Elias let the poor guy leave and Richard...stop hurting yourself! )

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Tairais  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(( He's not doing it intentionally ;z; ))

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Tairais • 3 years ago

(That doesn't make it better!! ;n; )

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Tairais  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(( It does to me~ XD ))

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Tairais • 3 years ago

( WELL--FINE THEN!!!--YOU DON'T COUNT!!! >:C )

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Tairais  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(( D: *sad Tai sounds* ))

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Tairais • 3 years ago

(YOU GET TO COUNT AGAIN WHEN YOU START TREATING YOUR CHILD RIGHT!!! >:c )

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Tairais  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(( Oop looks like I'll never count again, better tell my calculus teacher. )k

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Tairais • 3 years ago

(....TREAT YOUR CHILDREN RIGHT OR I'LL TAKE RICHARD LIKE I TOOK OLIVER!!! >:C )

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Tairais  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(( He's fine!! He has cuddles now! *hides hammer and blowtorch behind back* :D ))

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Tairais • 3 years ago

( ... O.O NO! NO HURTING THE SCARMUFFIN!!! NO TOOLS ONLY ELIAS AND CUDDLES!!)

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Tairais  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(( ... too late. Like, 20 years too late. ))

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Tairais • 3 years ago

( .... ;__; ...can he still Elias and cuddles?)

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Tairais  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(( Of course! ))

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Tairais • 3 years ago

(G O O D !)

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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 3 years ago

(*looks at the tools, looks at you* T^T Poor Scarmuffin...)

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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(( :D ))

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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 3 years ago

(T^T *hits you with a pillow*)

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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(( *Immediately starts sleeping* ))

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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 3 years ago

(*sighs and tucks the pillow under your head, and covers you with a blanket*

* thinks for a moment and grabs a stuffed animal to tuck into your arms*)

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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(( *Happy sleepy Tai sounds* ))

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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 3 years ago

(*smiles and plays "Red River Valley" on guitar*)

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Helen Jekyll  Tairais • 3 years ago

(Oh. My. God. XD)

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Tairais  Helen Jekyll • 3 years ago

(( Well, what can ya do? ))

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Helen Jekyll  Tairais • 3 years ago

(Hopefully be able to count. XD You're going to struggle in life if you can't!

Also, the Patchwork Prince has changed a lot since Helen first met him... I don't know if Helen would even recognize him at first.)

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Tairais  Helen Jekyll • 3 years ago

(( Well, considering he hasn't ever really (supposed to, my narrative ability probably isn't all that great at clarifying) shown up, probably not! XD ))

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RBDECEPTICON17  Tairais • 3 years ago

(Oh my god i'm dying over here!!! XD)

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Tairais  RBDECEPTICON17 • 3 years ago

(( Don't die on the new carpet! That's a lot of paperwork I don't wanna fill out... ))

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RBDECEPTICON17  Tairais • 3 years ago

(Okay okay i'm not dead!! XD)

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Tairais  RBDECEPTICON17 • 3 years ago

(( XD Good! ))

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RBDECEPTICON17  Tairais • 3 years ago

(Also i'm actually going to be doing my own roleplay post soon, possibly next saturday, for Rose and her little problem. ;3)

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Wizardblizzard  Tairais • 3 years ago

((What a great answer to "are you awake"! Reminds me of me, I have phases of lucid dreaming a lot so I know that feeling, even when I'm otherwise perfectly fine... "am I awake? Yes, think I'm awake this time, time I was getting up... Wait, why is my bed halfway down the stairs... sigh, try again".))

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Tairais  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

(( I've been told I talk when I sleepwalk so that's likely a response I would ve had for my sisters XD ))

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Jekyll1886  Wizardblizzard • 3 years ago

((That happens to me, too! XD))

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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago

Elias gives a small frown, pointed towards both the fearful inflection in Richard's voice and his words. Did he honestly doubt that he was awake?

... all things considered, he wouldn't put it past him.

He sat up. "How are you feeling?"

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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

He considered it. The honest truth, or a comfortable omission thereof?

"Floating. Tired. In less pain than before, so I c-can be thankful for that."

A halfway point between the two, to downplay the extent of his disconnect from himself.

A small, lopsided smile, crafted to amuse and reassure. "I trust and hope you are more well, yes?"

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Tairais • 3 years ago

(He dropped the stutter!! <3 )

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Tairais  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(( Richard had to allocate his hecks to give elsewhere xD ))

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Tairais • 3 years ago

(Shhhhh!!! I love it!!! :DDD *hugs the scarmuffin*)

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Tairais  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(( *disgruntled, mildly pained Richard sounds* Uh hj, his ribs... ))

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Tairais • 3 years ago

(*nuzzles Richard* I know...my hugs will make them better! *aggressive hugging*)

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Tairais  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(( *Richard begins to look both pained and panicked* hJ HE CRACKED ONE OF THOSE REMEMBER D: ))

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Tairais • 3 years ago

(*comforting head pats to both Richard and Tai, yet never lets go of Richard in a one arm hug.* I know! That's why I'm hugging him! To make it all better cause hugs fix everything!!)

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Tairais  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(( Not broken ribs and a general disinclined nature towards touch I don't think ^^" You're scaring the poor muffin. ))

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Tairais • 3 years ago • edited

(....He is the scarmuffin. ;) )

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Tairais  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(( Yup! ))

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(...Where did you steal that medical licence from?)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

( *plugs Richard's ears* Probably better if you don't know. ;) )

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

( *scowls* Well the first rule is "Do No Harm.")

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(Who ever said this was a proper medical license? *wink wink*)

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(That's just more concerning. Now stop crushing the scar-muffin's lungs!)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(Pft! Lungs! He doesn't need those as I'm pretty sure one's filled with his own blood. My silly swiss cheese muffin!)

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(That's exactly why he needs both of them to be un-crushed! Leggo!)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

( :< Aww! *puts the scarmuffin back* )

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(That's better. Thank you. *hands you a plushie of the scarmuffin*)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(Thank you!!! *begins to very happily put the scarmuffin plushie into a death hug* and this one won't run off! :D )

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

( 8T *is mildly concerned about that comment* You're...welcome?)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(Imma going to go find my bitter coffee bean plushie! See you later Cat! *skips off* :D )

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(Okay. Bye? *is still mildly concerned, but lets it go*)

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chatterghosts  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(( I can see it now. "Aaaand, kiss! :D *HJ making the two plushies make out noises*" ))

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Hyde without a Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

( ~maybe~ ;D )

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RBDECEPTICON17  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(Oh god! HJ is shipping all of our OCs! Panic! XD)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 3 years ago

( XDDD Granted Prinellanos is a thing.

....the Breakfast Square....well that's a different story! ;) )

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RBDECEPTICON17  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(Oh my~ XD)

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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago

"As well as I can be," he responds.

What, you're gonna lie to him the way he is to you?

What?

Nothing.

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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

He chuckled. "That is fair and good, then."

He huffed a weary breath, vision fraying at the edges despite the relief and cheer bubbling in his chest.

There were so many things he should say, could say.

Wouldn't say, couldn't say. He didn't know how.

How could he ever hope to explain what was felt, never thought?

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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago

The two had descended into silence, and Elias had taken to digging the nails into his hand - the ghosts of a familiar practice. He still had the scar on his hand.

"So, did you meet .. er.. Oliver?"

You sound like me.

Shut the hell up.

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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

He nodded slightly, and felt his lips twitch upwards of their own accord. "Yes."

He paused, then tentatively added, "He reminded me of my little brother, almost. Not quite the same feeling, but nearly the same colors." He shook his head. "Apologies.. that made little sense. I cannot... think of another way to phrase it, at present."

His voice had turned from fearful to mildly strained, lungs trying to get used to working properly after so much recent abuse. They would heal quickly, he was certain, but for now, he'd have to deal with the stiffness.

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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago

If you wanted to crawl inside the chest of your little brother, sure.

Elias gave a visible cringe at Oliver's words. "It's...you're fine. It made sense, yes."

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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

(( Plot twist that really shouldn't be all that surprising at this point, he did, Oliver XD What's a better way to make sure you can never be parted from someone you love? ))

Richard noticed the cringe and frowned, worried he was experiencing a new surge of pain. "Are you all right?"

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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago

He shakes his head. "Nono, it's all right. Oliver is just... terribly rude sometimes."

Kettle call the pot much?

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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

He huffed an amused breath, the sort that would almost have been laughter had he more energy.

"Forgive me, but I believe most say the same about you as well." He said, unknowingly echoing Oliver in his attempt to be amusing. "At any rate, I still find the both of you charming, so perhaps I am not a good judge of what or who qualifies as 'rude'."

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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago

Elias didn't laugh, though he did offer a small smirk. It was a nice little gesture, though not an honest one. At least Richard was trying to be amusing.

Um.. I'm going entirely off your memory here, didn't he used to have a stutter?

His eyes screwed shut. "Hah, I d'know how you stand me." That was his attempt at being amusing.

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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

He smiled, though Elias' statement made his heart ache in some indescribable way.

"That would probably be due to the experience we humans call love. It does and allows for strange things."

The words were strange to let go of, giving voice to abstract thoughts. His fingers twitched with the need to do.. something. The thought darted out of reach before he could examine it, and he sighed softly.

The sooner he could get out of here, the better. He wasn't planning on leaving until Elias said he could, though. He needed to do that much.

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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago

Elias gave a tiny sigh, head tilting back to touch the wall. "You're such a bleeding heart sometimes."

His— and Oliver's?— train of thought had reached the same place as Richard's, and some part of Elias knew that the only thing keeping Richard here to heal was his own words. And while he enjoyed the company, certainly, the thought that he was making Richard do something outside his own volition was cause for grief.

It was known quite especially to Elias (and Richard, and...Oliver, he supposed) that being forced into doing something was a horrible sensation.

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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

He mirrored Elias' posture without being entirely aware of it, his own inner thoughts slipping towards the image of Elias and he in the canals of Venice he had created some time... earlier? Probably that. At any rate, it was easier than focusing on the curious ache in his chest that had nothing to do with being trapped physically.

"Tik aplink jus, brangusis vienas." He added as an afterthought. The barrier of an unknown language made it easier to voice his thoughts, but even so, the meaning was quite possibly made obvious by his almost... fond tone.

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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago

Oh, nice. He seems all lovey-dovey now until he tries to kill you...again.

Elias drew his knees closer to him, trying - and failing - to ignore Oliver. It didn't entirely occur to him that he wasn't being rude and merely cautious, something that he was too, once upon a time. And what had happened to that survivalist instinct? Where had it gone?

... it had left Richard came. It was always Richard.

Did he really not care if he lived or died? Was he honestly willing to get hurt for the man he lo-- ...

He might have called the idea pathetic once, but now. Now.

"I won't ask that you stay here any longer than you desire, Richard, but I do want you to get some more rest. And eat, if you haven't."

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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

Richard chuckled again. "I have done plenty of the former, frankly, however my body has seen fit to refuse to let me move comfortably until the wound on my stomach has closed more. I estimate I will be here for.. a few more days, at the very least. As for the latter, I am relatively certain I have eaten, since I have not died of starvation."

Though the source of it wasn't clear, his tone was actually lighter, the most serene it had been since the start of the conversation (never mind the fact he still couldn't quite tell where his body was in relation to his mind). Elias's mother-henning always made him faintly, if a little darkly, amused, since it showed just how little he would care for his wellbeing.

Elias's wellbeing, on the other hand, he would die to ensure its longevity. He'd already come much closer than anticipated to that.

Therein lay a bittersweet truth of their relationship, one he didn't know how to face comfortably. There likely wasn't any comfort in it, really.

"A mutually unspoken pact to ignore the worst in one another, to continue enjoying the best."

The words weren't his. They seldom were, in these matters. That was quite all right, frankly. His own thoughts on the subject were.. more akin to wordless exclamations, warm feelings of dread, and shrugs of indecision.

And the occasional flash of anger directed at himself when he realized he had let his heart be swept away from his own hands. He could never fault Elias, though. It was entirely his problem he got too attached, too quickly.

Not for the first time, he imagined it would be simpler to just... end the problem himself. For the first time though, the thought made his heart ache and nearly scream in phantom agony.

No, was the answer to that particular thought then.

Pulling himself from the clutches of his mind, he added. "Besides, where else would I go for pleasant conversation?" He let out a light chuckle at this, knowing full well Elias likely would scoff at his finding him 'pleasant' company.

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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago

And this is most certainly what Elias does, though rather than say anything on it, he simply returns a small laugh. The weariness he had been feeling slipped through the cracks in his voice as he responded with a quiet, "If you say so." It had sounded just a touch more defeated than he'd anticipated.

His hands slid down and tucked themselves under the crooks of his knees. Not an entirely comfortable position, he realized when pain shot through his damaged shin, but it provided a sort of comfort only matched by Richard himself. An amusing notion, all things considered.

Oliver was quiet.

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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

He simply nodded, the strength to choose and place words leaving him as a rush of fatigue tugged at something behind his eyes. He ignored it as he had ignored the many wounds that landed him here.

Somewhere in between focusing on Elias and focusing on not focusing on pain, his mind slid sideways into memory.

Hands pushing him down to the surface of the cot, flashes of silver and glass, leather straps against his chest and arms. He was a skinny little thing, bony even then, and even so it was difficult for them to pin him down.

His eye glassy with recollections he didn't want. A whine crawled up his throat and died with a sharply aborted, high-pitched sound. Distantly, he hoped Elias hadn't heard it. Equally so, he knew that he had.

He stepped away from his body, watching his fingers as they occasionally twitched through one waking nightmare to the next.

Typical. Vulnerable. Irritating. Tiring. A waste of time.

When he was relatively certain that would be the extent of his external reactions, he had time to process that this duality of his mind was far beyond the reach of normalcy, even for him.

His lack of care towards the current predicament was equally unsettling. He chose not to dwell on it too much, instead allowing that part of his mind to walk out the doors of the infirmary, straight into the forests of his youth.

He'd come back eventually. Hopefully.

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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago

Elias cringed at the noise, though he said nothing. Rather, he didn't know what to say; and Oliver provided nothing, as he'd gone supernaturally quiet.

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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

Amidst a snow of ash, with the cries of battle behind him, they walked side by side. Equals, acknowledged and accepted. Reminders exchanged and forgiven, betrayals buried and the graves smoothed over.

Tchlk, tchlk, tchlk.

They fell upon each of the squadrons of four to eight men like wraiths in a graveyard. Vengeful, cruel, merciless. More vibrant in their pseudo-death then they had been in life.

After it all had ended, they had waded into a quiet river and let themselves fall into its depths, seeking nothing but the comfort of silence and the absence of air.

They'd be pulled from it soon enough. They merely had to wait for someone else to worry for them more than they did.

If he had been entirely aware of the situation, Richard would have felt a flash of wry amusement at their conversation ending the way it had, and the silence that followed in its wake.

Neither of them were really all that good at this. Whatever 'this' was.

It would have felt like a novel abandoned in the middle of a particularly riveting chapter.

As it was, though, he was unaware of anything but his hands' frantic twitching and the conjurations of his imagination. He felt nothing.

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Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

(You thought he was finally gone! You thought he would never see the light of day again! But I'm here to tell you folks that the legend is back! Yes! Through harrowing feats of incredible strength, agility, and wit he was able to traverse the fires of hell and climb the icy mountains of oblivion to return to the TRPS community! That's right folks!

He's back by popular demand!

The Man!

The Myth!

The Legend!

DRUNKY MACDRUNKERSON! )

Recap: Three days after waking up utterly confused in a pile of rubble with no recollection of how he had gotten there, our hero wandered up and down the streets of London looking for a job, some entertainment, and his usual booze supplier (as he had forgotten the address...again.) Upon finally finding the latter he was able to restock his four flasks of fate and once again take on the unusual nights of London. It is one such night were we begin our story...

The wind howled like a loon and the moon reflected off the damp streets turning the city into silver. The water jumped under his feet as he wandered the gas lamp streets of London. He did not know where he was traveling but let the pull of fate lay out his path.

This path led to enormous shining building in the heart of the beast. Massive telescopes stuck out every which way. The windows shown with brilliance and creativity and the sounds of science could be heard on the smoke. Though at a glance, the place in question seemed harmless enough with it's crisp and formal exterior, but he knew better. This was a place of pure power. It may burst forth at any moment becoming a hated monster and devour his home whole or it could be tamed and it's strength channeled into fueling a new era. So much potential for good and evil and he was disgusted by it--no he loathed it.

This place had destroyed everything he had achieved in his life! It had taken his job! It had taken his honor! It had taken his credibility! It had left him nothing but the title of "fool". That place and everything inside were evil, no other word for it.

The man pulled out a pristine silver flask and took a swallow of it's contents before recapping it and nesting it back into his waistcoat.

If this place had destroyed his life then the least he could do was repay it in kind.

"ROT IN HELL YOU SHRIKES!!!" he yelled, picking up a near by stone and chucking it through one of the upper windows of the Society for Arcane Sciences.

(He's like a bad penny that you just can't get rid of....May mercy be upon our souls. XD Jekyll1886 )

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Jekyll1886  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

Lewis had been walking through one of the upper corridors when a fragment of cobblestone sailed through the window to impact him right in the funny bone of the arm whose hand held his walking stick. He gave a surprised cry, releasing the stick, and down he went. The offending stone bounced once on the floor after hitting him, then slid to a stop against the wall.

It took a few seconds for his brain to put the pieces together, but when it did, he was furious. He hoisted himself up with the aid of the stick and heaved to the window.

"WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" he yelled into the street below, before he even caught sight of the stone-thrower.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited

The man in the street looked up to the yelling silhouette in the window. The glowing aura of light surrounding him darkened his features by contrast. The man looked more inhuman than human however this did not stop him from retorting, "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME?!" he screamed up, "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?! YOU SCIENTISTS KEEPING GOING ABOUT YOUR DAYS, HAPPY AS A LARK WITHOUT ANY CONCERN TO THE DESOLATION YOU LEAVE IN YOUR WAKE AND THE PEOPLE OF LONDON ARE IGNORANT TO IT!!"

He picked up another rock, "WELL NOT ANYMORE! I'M NOT GOING TO BE ONE OF YOUR DAMN DEAD MICE THAT YOU DISPLAY ON YOUR BRANCHES!! I'M TAKING YOU SHRIKES DOWN, BECAUSE I AM A HAWK!!!" and with this promise he chucked another rock at the window where Lewis stood.

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Jekyll1886  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

"Ow! S***! Bugger! F***! Damn!" The words came out staccato as the man in the street pelted him with a succession of stones, Lewis unable to block them all without risking another spill. With a sound of exasperation which bordered on a growl, tore himself away and made his way down the steps.

Should've gotten rid of the bloody blighter when I had the chance, he chastised himself. He certainly didn't need this tonight. Not to mention there were patients in the infirmary who needed their rest.

He came to the front door. As quickly as he could, he slipped out and shut it behind him.

"Face me, cur!" he addressed the nuisance in front of him, hoping to keep him from doing any more property damage.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited

He had shouted in victory when he saw the silhouette had retreated from its post. Tonight he would take back the city from the vultures that circled it. Tonight the city wouldn't die and become a meal for the wretched people of that building! Tonight, though he was no longer part of the organization, he would save London from itself! And maybe then they'll give him his job back!

Pulling out his lucky flask he took a mouth full of the fiery liquid that imbued his every word and action with awe. This was going to be a glorious nig--

He spit out the liquor in alarm as the familiar face burst through the door, "WHAT THE BLOODY HELL!?"

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Jekyll1886  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

"Bloody indeed, if you don't leave this very instant!" It was the last warning Weir'd give him.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

After the inital shock had worn off, his lips spread into a wide toothy grin. Two birds with one stone., he thought.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't my Golden Goose, rubbing elbows with the shrikes I see! How low you have fallen! Pray tell, has someone clipped your wings?"

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Jekyll1886  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

"It's alright, Jasper. Just an annoying gnat."

He turned to Drunky.

"What the hell is it with you and the bird metaphors, anyway?"

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited

The man looked frankly offended, whether it be from the "gnat" comment or the question about the bird metaphors it was unclear.

He seemed completely oblivious to the hulking orange giant behind Lewis as his eyes never moved from his arch nemesis. "I do hope it was you in the window, for that would be exactly what I ordered: Revenge...on the rocks." He took another swig from the flask as he said this as to make up for the drink that swirled with the rain covering the ground.

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Jasper Jekyll  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

You've got enough rocks in your head for the three of us, TRUST me, you don't need to order any more.

( She leans in toward Lewis slightly. )

You're right, this guy is a gnat. He's even trying to drown himself!

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Jekyll1886  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

At MacDrunkerson's description of his revenge, Lewis's face took on an expression which seemed to say nothing so much as, "Are you kidding me?" At Jasper's further banter, he couldn't help but chuckle. Yet when she leaned in to comment, her words struck a chord. He looked at the fellow before him, really looked at him. He'd detected unusual lethargy in an earlier encounter he'd had with him, but written it off as part of the man's hangover. Yet now...the energy had changed enough for Weir to detect something he hadn't before.

"He already has," he replied softly, tilting his head at the drunkard before them. "Or will, soon enough." He shook his head. "He's not long for this world."

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited

A comeback to the looming tangerine was quickly slapped from the tip of his tongue by Lewis's words. Not long for this world, his mind echoed. A series of emotions took flight across his face: shock, fear, and finally landing on denial.

"Pft!" He spit at Lewis, "Not long for this world? This is just another one of your...." he snapped his fingers recalling the word to the for front of his brain, "...mind tricks! Or a threat to scare me, isn't it!" While his words dripped with ire, his body had begun to retreat.

The soft drizzle of rain had begun again, matting down hair and clothes alike.

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Jasper Jekyll  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

Yeah, he's not looking so good now that you mention it. Want me to get someone?

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Jekyll1886  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago

Lewis shook his head at MacDrunkerson.

To Jasper, he replied:

"Hen, I should think." Please don't make some sort of terrible bird pun, he silently prayed regarding Drunky.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"Mind Tricks!" he screamed, continuing to treat form the duo. These scientists were barbaric! They were going to take him into their torture chamber to help him! They're devilish help probably would come in the form of a vivisection!! Not to mention the person they were getting to conduct said help was a chicken!! A chicken!!

"Keep away you monsters!! I don't want any sort of goose or parrot or chicken coming any where near me!!" His face was distorted with anger and terror, but this was nothing compared to the persons before him. Their figures molded into horrific abstract shapes by the alcohol and intensifying rain that took up roost in his eyes.

If anything had to be a drunken dream he prayed this was it. Soon he would wake up in his bed to the crowing of the rooster and this would have all been a nightmare....he hoped to wake up sooner rather than later.

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Jasper Jekyll  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

Forget Hen, we can't bring this nut job anywhere near people. You have some tranq or is he getting a knuckle sandwich?

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Jekyll1886  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago

"If you'll hold him still, I'll sedate him properly," Weir replied.

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Jasper Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

Done.

( Jasper lurches forward, meaty palms reaching for the inebriated man. )

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

The mans eyes widen at this and he began to do the math in his head:

Lame golden goose + massive cockatoo (the hair alone counted as another person) = ....not very good odds.

It was time to put all the organization's training into use.

Quickly the man turned and bolted down the street. The rain drops struck his face like bullets as the rain was now pelting down onto the people of London, though for those who had lived in it all their life this was nothing more than a minor inconvenience. His path wasn't straight but neither were the winding alleys of the city....if he could just get to a crowded street he could lose them...

Faster. Faster. Long strides like an ostrich.

The howling of werewolves behind him and the flapping of demon wings on the wind of a memory.

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Jasper Jekyll  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

( In one fell swoop, Jasper lifts Lewis onto her back ( a role she'd become all to accustomed to playing ) and leaps upon the rooftops, bounding effortlessly from one to the next. She'd hardly noticed that she raced on all fours now.

At least this was one way to wear him out. )

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Jekyll1886  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago

Lewis gave a brief "Oof!" of surprise, then thanked Jasper for her gracious and timely assistance.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

He could no longer hear any tell tale pounding steps behind him, but this did not mean he was free. Above, between the crashes of thunder, a heavy galloping drifted down to him. If he didn't know better the man may have thought the demons were running on the clouds, the thunder their foot steps, and the lightening their torches.

A burst of light lit up the silver world followed by a echoing

CRACK!

There! His one chance! The entrance to a maze of streets covered by clotheslines and awnings!

Ducking into the cobblestone labyrinth he hoped to evade his trackers like a ptarmigan in the snow covered winter. The roughen fabrics flailing in the torrent would mask his own hurried form as he navigated the landscape...or at least this was his desire.

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Jasper Jekyll  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

( Through the cobblestone labyrinth they pursue him.

What is this gnat drowning in? Kerosine? )

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Jekyll1886  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

The chase was taking longer than Lewis had expected. Privately, he wondered just what MacDrunkerson's drink of choice was.

Turpentine, he concluded. Possibly adulterated with cocaine.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

The chase continued. Lightening lit up the world. Thunder crashed and echoed in the corridors. The rain battered everyone and everything.

His lungs began burn slightly. Odd considering he was used to running much harder for far longer. Probably just the rain and the vulture's disease creeping into his body.

The sounds of galloping had faded to nothing now. Where were they? Where were they?

Taking a risk he glanced behind him. Nothing. He continued a bit more and attempted the feat again, angling his vision to the rooftops.

There! There they were like some sort of deformed Turkey they ran silently along the ledges of the building. The massive silhouette of their combined figures was an insult to nature. Disgusting.

CRACK!

Their limbs moved at inhuman speeds and their doubled headed appearance was even more monstrous. This thing that chased him down was ugly beyond words or reason. Yet no matter how horrific the image he could not bring his eyes to part with it--

His flight came to a jarring end as he collided with a brick wall. Crashing to his back, the man laid splayed out in a rapidly growing puddles. Easy pickings for the scavengers.

"Mind tricks...." he whimpered as he waited for the world to stop spinning.

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Jasper Jekyll  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

NOW! GET YOUR SHOT READY!

( Jasper hurls the both of them off the building, landing on the same fours with which she propelled them. Slowly, she uncurls her body- allowing Lewis to slide down to the ground. )

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

"GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!!" He screamed, sitting up but it was far too soon and the blood rushed to his head, forcing him back to the drenched ground.

With plan A being a failure, the man quickly moved onto plan B. There was no time in lapses in judgement or debates on the course of action. Every second was precious, every move could be his last.

Quickly jumping (metaphorically) to action, he began to log roll down the street. The water crept into the last remaining dry spots on his personage and it splashed his face. He was not a duck. He was not designed for this. Yet, never the less, he was determined to make it to the freedom, in hopes of exploring his ever fascinating home another day.

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Jasper Jekyll  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

( For a moment, she pauses, blinking incredulously at the scene before her eyes.

"I didn't know they made humans this stupid"

She places one muddy boot on his stomach with an involuntary chortle. )

Hey, Get back here.

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Jekyll1886  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago

Lewis saw Drunky's wooziness...and his last-ditch ploy.

Gotta hand it to him. I'll give the man credit for tryin'.

"Sorry, starlin'," he said as he bent down next to the drunkard's muddied form. Weir's body obstructed what went on from passersby. "End o' the line." With that, he administered the sedative, easing the man's pain...for now.

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Jasper Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

( Jasper slings the man's body over her shoulder and turns back toward the Society. )

Alright, let's get him settled

...away from people.

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Jekyll1886  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago

* * *

Some time later, Jasper, Lewis, and the still-unconscious sot re-entered the Society.

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Jasper Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

( The pair leave a trail of dripping water and freshly stirred mud, not unlike a giant slug. Jasper turns to Lewis. )

Go grab some bedding, I'll meet you in the morgue.

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Jekyll1886  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago

Weir would sorely liked to have dried off and put on a fresh change of clothes first, but he did as Jasper said, glad Drunky wouldn't disturb the patients in the infirmary.

Too many questions, too many potential complications... He was only too happy to avoid them.

He entered the morgue. Not long ago, he'd been the one on the table there...

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Jasper Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

( Jasper travels upstairs and grabs opium and some monitoring equipment. When she returns, she takes the bedding and comfortably settles the man. )

Let's hope no one dies.

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Jekyll1886  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago

"I'm no godling; I can't prevent that," said Lewis with a shrug. "But, with what you've brought here," he continued, picking up the opium, "I can at least make him comfortable."

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Jasper Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

( She looks from Lewis to the man and back. )

...Oh I'm not talking about Rocky, we already know he's a goner.

( With a irritated sigh, she places a hand on her hip and looks up. )

It's them I'm worried about. If one of them does something stupid, we're not going to have anywhere to move the body.

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Jekyll1886  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago

"Are you referring to the...would-be godlings?" asked Weir with a careful glance and the barest tilt of his head.

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Jasper Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

If by "Godlings" you mean some of those humans, then yes.

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Jekyll1886  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago

"Ah. Sorry," said Lewis. "I misunderstood."

He prepared and administered the proper dose. MacDrunkerson would be comfortable, for now.

"I'll have to pop in here occasionally to give him his medicine," he informed Jasper. "I may need your help diverting lodgers from this room."

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Jasper Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

( Her lip curls into a smirk. )

Isn't that already my job?

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Jekyll1886  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago

"Point," admitted Lewis as he broke into a smile.

He cast a glance at Drunky, then back to Jasper.

"I suppose you'd like to get a change of clothes? I can look after him for the time being," he offered, tilting his head to indicate the drunkard.

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Jasper Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

Yeah ( She heads towards the door and pauses. )

I'd bet you want some too, huh?

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Jekyll1886  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago

"I've nothing on hand here, unfortunately," he explained. "But I'll make a run to my flat after you return."

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Jasper Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

( She pauses for a moment before shrugging. )

Alright.

( She turns and crosses the threshold- leaving a layer of water inches deep in her wake. )

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Silverliné Carew  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago

( In the foyer upstairs, she's greeted by a familiar face. )

Jasper, You look like a cat dragged you in! what happened to you?

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Jasper Jekyll  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( She heads up towards the stairs. )

A walk in the rain.

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Silverliné Carew  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

( Silver rushes to catch up with Jasper. For the first time in her life, her gangly strides are not enough to put her ahead. )

I'd say it's a little more than that!

Come, you must get in the showers

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Jasper Jekyll  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

It's not going make a difference where I'm going.

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Silverliné Carew  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago

( She bristles slightly.

"Where you're going?" )

Wh- Well I'm quite sure it will! Unless you're sleeping outside in the street, we need to get you cleaned up!

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Jasper Jekyll  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( She notices the bristle.

"Of course she noticed. Now she's going to start questioning you, good job.

...I wish I could tell you"

She huffs. )

You do realize I can already change my clothes, right?

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Silverliné Carew  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago

Not with all that mud on you, you can't! Nuh uh! To the showers with you!

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Jekyll1886  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

Lewis, meanwhile, took up his post in a chair just outside the morgue.

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Jekyll1886  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

He was soon asleep.

(( chatterghosts Hyde without a Jekyll ))

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Jasper Jekyll  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago

( She leans in with a peculiarly goofy grin. )

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Silverliné Carew  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago

( As if to tell what the grin means, Silver answers it by breaking into hives. She pushes the giant forward. )

Showers. Now!

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

The man tried to struggle against his captors but it was futile. This was it. This was how he was going to go. How many times had this thought ran though his head in the past? Far to many to count.

Seeing no escape he moved to plan C, just as the world faded to black.

"F*ck you..."

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Jekyll1886  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

"Not my type, sorry," whispered Lewis with a smirk.

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Jekyll1886  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited

Weir gave a brief chortle at Drunky's incompetence.

"The pigeon has landed," he declared.

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Jasper Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited

( Large booming footsteps shuffle behind the crippled doctor and he is soon overshadowed by an 8 foot tall silhouette . If the inebriated fellow had thought Lewis a demon, then the devil herself was peering down at him through the fires of hell flickering in their amber eyes.

He is greeted loud commanding voice with a distinct rasp. )

What's going on here?

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Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(Hyde without a Jekyll The page closed, sorry!)

There you are Alice! *Catt called after catching sight of her.* I've got something to return to you. *She held out Alice's old satchel, the strap coiled on top of it as it lay in her hands.*

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

Alice whipped around at Catt's voice, hands and mouth full of sweets. She attempted to speak but quickly stopped realizing it was no more comprehensible than a bear's growls.

Setting down her plate full of food, and swallowing the delicious refreshment she once again tried to repeat her previous exclamation with a grin, "Catt!"

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

"Yes, hi again." she grinned. She was back in her old jacket and ready to face more of the gathering after her involuntary nap, and some convenient time travel. "I figured you'd want this back?"

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Catt Hatter • 3 years ago • edited

(@DeathMurder_JH The page closed, was there anything more you had wanted to cover? And yeah, focusing on learning a new skill can get tedious sometimes.)

It's no trouble, I just want to make sure we have all the time we need for the trip. *She explained.* Just in case something goes wrong, y'know?

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Catt Hatter  Guest • 3 years ago

(No worries! Life tend to get in the way of itself. Honestly, I'd be able to focus no problem if I had someone to practice things with.)

"O-oh I don't mean anything to do with you!" She said urgently. "I-I just meant if the weather, or something unexpected happened. Entropy, and all that... I didn't mean to imply any incompetence on your part. Sorry."

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Catt Hatter  Guest • 3 years ago • edited

Catt all but cowered under his sudden glare.

"I-I'm sorry!" Near panic laced her words as she hurriedly tried to make up for whatever offense she had caused. "I'll be ready by tomorrow! I'll use my time things to make sure of it! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to throw off any plans! I'm sorry!"

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Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(Tairais Here we go!)

Alright then! *She handed him her Hatt.* You should feel better as soon as you put it on. Was there anything you needed before we go? Slippers, maybe a housecoat?

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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(( I swear to god disqus -_- It keeps crashing on me and losing my response- this is the fifth time I've typed this. Hopefully none of the others posted... ))

True to her word, as soon as he put on the Hatt, Richard felt his pain all but vanish, and swallowed the inevitable sense of guilt that followed in the sensation's wake. (He didn't have a right to feel better now- in the way of those thoughts lay madness and still he chased them in circles until he was exhausted, until he stood back and let them chase themselves-) He tentatively sat up and swung his legs over the side of his cot and, when no waves of nausea or dizziness slammed into him, stood on his own two feet properly for the first time in several days.

He grinned, tamping down the turmoil he conjured because he knew he should feel it and instead focused on the exhilarating feeling of being able to walk again, to be free of the infirmary if only for a few hours. He hoped the others were asleep. He didn't want to have to answer questions.

"I b-believe... Ah, y-yes." He all but danced over to the chair that had Jack's coat folded on the back of it and shrugged it on, his scarf and eye-patch-of-sorts following shortly after.

With another flash of a smile, he turned to Catt. "I h-have everything I n-need." Including a weapon, for emergencies, was the thought that danced unseen in his eyes.

It occurred to him that perhaps he was just a tad too trusting, all things considered. It also occurred to him that he really didn't care at the moment. He would deal with it when and if the issue arose.

For now though, he wanted to leave. The destination, so long as it wasn't another place like this, was irrelevant.

see more

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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 3 years ago

(Oh dear. Are you on mobile? When using your phone, I think you have to wait until the time signature says "A few seconds ago" instead of "In a few seconds," otherwise it eats your post.)

Catt grinned back at him, his elation too infectious not to share.

"Excellent! I had been thinking we could take a turn through the gardens, and maybe afterwards stop by the library on the way back so you could have some books to read. How does that sound?"

Despite her light demeanor and mood, she was devoting a more than necessary amount of focus to making sure she didn't stammer on accident. She really didn't want him to think she was mocking his speech. She'd feel horrible about offending him like that, or any other way!

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Mz.Hyde Mod  • 3 years ago • edited

Let's go put her to bed Marbles. She's had a long day.

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Catt Hatter  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago

"Baa!" Marbles followed, little cloven hooves tapping the floor as they made their way through the society.

"Mmph, no more tea... eggs're better..." Catt mumbled.

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Mz.Hyde Mod  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

* Mz. Hyde smiled as she put Catt down on her bed in the infirmary and pulled the covers over her.*

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Catt Hatter  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago

(Why the infirmary?) Author asked, confused.

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Mz.Hyde Mod  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(Ah shit, did I put her in the wrong room?)

She hasn't had the rest of her brain surgery.

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Catt Hatter  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago • edited

(That happened back in November, the scene just hasn't been written yet. Sorry!) They explained.

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Mz.Hyde Mod  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(SHHHHHHHHH-OK! Take that again!)

* Rewinds reality.*

* Mz. Hyde lugs Catt down to her room, and notices the new bunk bed.*

Hey, they got it up! I'll just put you on the bottom bunk.

* She lays her down on the bed and puts the covers over her.*

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Catt Hatter  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago

Author was caught somewhere between the moral implications of rewinding an entire world, and the humour of having a blooper reel.

Marbles jumped up on the bed, and sensing no immediate danger, lay down by his new owner's side.

As if she could sense Mz. Hyde leaving, Catt groaned in protest. But it was probably just a bad dream, or something.

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Mz.Hyde Mod  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

* Mz.Hyde stops at the door, just to make sure everything was alright. Seeing that nothing was out of the ordinary, she smiled again.*

Happy birthday, Catt.

* She quietly closed the door.*

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RBDECEPTICON17 • 3 years ago

(Can someone tag HJ on here for me, please! I can't tag her on my laptop! T-T)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 3 years ago

(Here!)

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RBDECEPTICON17  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(Awesome sauce! Could you repeat your reply here? I can't remember what it was. XD)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 3 years ago

(Sure!)

Juggling her sleeping friend, Alice managed to get the doors open and slide in scanning for a bed to lay her down on.

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RBDECEPTICON17  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

The bed was actually next door, a very obvious door on the right wall of the sexologist's quarters.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 3 years ago

Seeing no bed in the first room, Alice made her way to the second. She really did hope she would find a bed soon as her arms were getting tired from dragging Rose through the Society.

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RBDECEPTICON17  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

The second room was thankfully the blonde's bedroom, a simple yet comfortable bed against the wall in front of the door Alie had just entered through.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 3 years ago

"Oh thank goodness!" She sighed dragging Rose over to the bed and carefully laying her down upon it.

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Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

Still on crutches, Lewis entered the infirmary. He'd not yet had the chance to speak with Elias--nor Oliver--about the events which had transpired at the workhouse.

(( chatterghosts ))

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

Elias lies on the cot, thumbs twiddling idly as he stares at the ceiling.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

Ah. Good. He's awake, Weir observed silently.

"Hello, Elias," he greeted, making his way gingerly toward him.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

He nodded in acknowledgement, sitting up slowly.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"I hope I'm not disturbing you," he admitted, not sure if Elias perhaps needed to rest at this juncture...or felt up to talking.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"You're not," he responds flatly.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Ah. Good." Lewis took a seat beside Elias's bed, and set down his crutches. "How are you?" he asked, his concern genuine.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"I'm...fine." The pause between words wasn't hesitance, but an analysis of how he is feeling. And he did feel fine, frankly. He felt .. peaceful, even.

Oliver was silent.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"That's good." He smiled, relieved. Lowering his voice in order to be discreet, he asked, "How's Oliver, by the by?"

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"I wouldn't know," he admits. "He isn't speaking. At all."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Oh." A pause. "Does he normally?"

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"Generally, yes." Another pause. "He has been for awhile. A few hours... it's odd."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

((Is this before or after Lewis's conversation with Richard?))

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

(( After. ))

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Hm," pondered Lewis. "Did anything unusual precede it?"

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"Richard and I had a discussion, but that would be all." He shrugged.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Yes, I spoke with him, too. I suppose we all ought to talk, after...what happened," he said, looking to the floor as he recalled the tense time in the workhouse.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

His voice lacked intonation; it was...hollow. "What d'you want to talk about?"

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"When you and I first met..." he began, earnestly looking Elias in the eye, "I feel we got off on the wrong foot, honestly. It took me a bit to discern why, but by that point, I could tell you'd a distaste for me, and there wasn't really a good way to bring it up."

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"You're right," he says plainly. "It was...stupid of me, though." Though Elias' eyes flit around the room, they eventually land and rest on Lewis'. "I apologize for it."

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Hyde without a Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

(Oh snap! He apologized again!)

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

Lewis blinked a few times in rapid succession, brows raising in surprise. Had he heard Elias right?

"I... Thank you," said Weir, nearly at a loss for words.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

Oliver was making him soft. Or it was Richard's bleeding-heart-ness. It had to be.

"I wouldn't," he states flatly. "Anyhow, that's not what you wanted, was it?"

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Nevertheless, I'll take it," said Lewis. Elias...apologized...to him?

Hell's frozen over so solid that demons are peltin' each other with snowballs right now.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

Elias shrugged yet again. Perhaps he wasn't panicking about having to answer questions, but he was most definitely worried. The same worry had been delayed in the first place, held off by absent and abstract thought.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited

"Well, anyhow...what I wanted to--what I've come here to tell you," he corrected himself, "is that you needn't fear I'll make any sort of romantic overture toward Richard. 'Took me long enough to put the pieces together, but I have. I know you belong to each other now. Rest assured: I've no interest in anything more than friendship with either of you."

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

I haven't been 'round too long, but that's, um, just about the funniest thing I've ever heard.

Elias' face comes alight with surprise; not towards Lewis, but towards the new arrival. The metaphysical signature had joined them, too. "It's..really alright, I reacted ridiculously."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"It was a very odd night for all of us. This dimension is rather a strange one. I count myself lucky to have located the source of the nightmare-anomalies at all, much less dealt with it."

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited

"Fair enough."

I, uh, I want to talk to him.

About?

Face to face, Elias.

...Please.

Elias' face melts into a scowl. "Oliver says hi."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited

"Oh," said Lewis with a small, pleasant smile. "Please tell him hello, then. How is he, by the by?"

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

That's a good question. One I'd like to answer personally, if you could?

"He's fine."

Oh my god, I hate you.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Are you...speaking with him now?" asked Lewis, with a tilt of his head. "Internally," he clarified.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"Yes, I am," he huffs. "He...wants to talk t'you face to face."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Oh," said Lewis. "Can he hear me as I speak, or is it up to you to relay the information to him?" He also noted to himself that Elias didn't seem very happy about something.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"He can, though..experience states he doesn't really remember it all too well later," he says, scratching his neck.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"I see. Hence the request for the tête-à-tête," Weir said, nodding. "Is it the same for you, when the body's his?"

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"It is," he admits.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Ah." He'd thought as much, but it never hurt to check.

"Have the two of you worked out a schedule, if I may ask? Based on my knowledge of the phenomenon, things can grow rather contentious without one." He didn't wish to see Elias nor Oliver dragged into a self-destructive, downward spiral.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"No, we haven't," said Elias. "It's...more emotional than anything, I suppose. It's a hard thing to control.."

But you certainly have to problem with kickin' me out and making me stressed...

Elias didn't care to relay that bit.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Emotional?" asked Lewis. "How so? I don't doubt you, naturally; I'm simply curious which emotions are involved."

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"Stress?"

Alice.

"..fear, too," he adds lamely.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

So, a...limbic reaction, for lack of a better term, Weir concluded.

"I see," he said with a nod.

"Was there anything more you wished to talk about, Elias?" he asked, just to be thorough. "Or any questions you might have? This is my area of expertise. Even if I happen not to know an answer, I could certainly research it."

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

You have to let me ask, Elias! This isn't fair!

In your own time, damnit.

What came next was the metaphysical equivalent of someone smashing something prized in rage - a wave of pure resentment and fury.

"I don't think so, no."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

Lewis raised an eyebrow.

"Then perhaps you might let Oliver speak. Before you two are at each others' throats. Trust me, that never ends well," he asserted with a shake of his head.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

Elias gave a deep sigh through his nose. Reluctance was giving rapid way to defeat.

Ask him about what Joseph said, please.

"Joseph...mentioned that Oliver wasn't a permanent fixture." A pause, before adding, "He didn't specify any more than that, but obviously, Oliver's..more than a little alarmed."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Honestly?" said Lewis. "I'd need a sample of your blood. Well, two--one for each, just in case there's a difference. I might be able to tell from that; I might not." He reflected a moment. "Though, I suppose I could also write Joseph and ask him directly."

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

At least he's willing to help..

"Uh.. right. That works, I s'pose."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"The blood, the letter, or both?" It never hurts to be thorough.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"Both," said Elias (and Oliver, at the same time).

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

Weir's brows raised; his lips formed a pleased smile that not only reached his eyes but nearly bordered on a smirk.

There's hope for you yet, lad.

"Then it's settled. Do you feel up to giving the blood sample now?"

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

A pause.

Elias...

He sighed. "I've got nothing else to do. Why not?"

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Very good, then."

Lewis picked up his crutches, got up, retrieved the proper medical supplies, and once again took his seat next to Elias. With practiced care, he sterilized the skin at the inner bend of Elias's elbow, located a vein, inserted the needle, and drew out the sample. Weir then pressed a small ball of cotton over the area, securing it with a bit of gauze.

"Thank you," he said to Elias. "I'll store this properly now."

Lewis rose and retrieved a test tube, transferred the blood hygienically, and sealed the whole affair. He then returned to Elias with the same type of supplies as he had the first time. He readied the fresh syringe.

"And now Oliver, if you don't mind. I'd like to begin work on this as soon as possible."

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"Wh--I-I mean, I can't really just.. trigger a transformation..."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Oh? Have you ever tried to do so before?" Weir asked, quite matter-of-fact about the whole scenario.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"W-... well, no. I don't know why you think I'd want to."

I think I could do it.

You what?

The response had exited his mouth as well, more or less without his knowledge, and Elias looked..shocked. "You what?"

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

Lewis had been about to reply to Elias's initial statement with a question of his own, but stopped himself short at the added query.

"Pardon?"

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"No, apologies, just," he seems to blink in surprise. "Oliver said he could. Could help it along, I mean."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Intriguing. Well, by all means..." he encouraged.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited

Wait, how exactly is this goin'ta go do--

Sorry about this, came the short answer. No sooner than that had multiple scenarios began passing through Elias' thoughts - almost projected there. The images that rushed through his head were in violent and rapid succession, but eventually, they settled on one, single moment:

The deafening 'bang!' of a gunshot echoed around the room. There was a choked, gargled shriek, and the red-dressed woman crumpled.

She wasn't breathing, of course. The bullet had left a sizable hole straight through her neck, and if someone wiped the viscera away, they could see through her throat, and past the bone fragments to gaze upon the hard floor.

There was a heavy release of breath, followed by a loud scraping sound, two more gunshots (and their respective bodies going down with them), and the loud chink of metal against the floor. Elias hadn't faced it then, and he'd never taken the time, never bothered to reconstruct the scene that was ensuing behind him.

..

In fact, Elias was still breathing.

He was stillbreathing?

To be fair, he hadn't realized he was crying, either, not until his throat closed in on his heavy breathing, his jaw snapped shut, and his vision refocused with something..emulating calmness. He felt two heavy hands on his shoulder. Whose hands were they? James'? Rowan's?

And questions followed: was Rowan even still alive? Should he turn around? What about the children? What would he see? Was James dead, too? Had the door opened, or was he hearing things? Was Joseph in here, too?

Turning around was facing....something he desperately didn't want to face. But he knew he needed to.

Where he would have 'turned around', the images fuzzed and greyed out. Elias had gone as stiff as a brick and as white as a sheet. Tears threatened the rims of his eyelids; his eyes screwed shut.

And when he reopened them ages later - but really, maybe a minute or so had passed for the observer - they'd lost their lustrous gold.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

It had been an interesting process to observe, on many fronts: physical, psychological, metaphysical, emotional. Lewis wondered what it was Elias had seen or relived in his mind's eye. For that was what it must have been: Elias had a look of shock, of trauma.

Such as only the past--or, Weir reflected, briefly thinking of the Prince's Hastie tableau, a very vengeful Richard--can make.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"Grab a bucket, please?" Elias rasped out.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited

Weir used one of his crutches to pull a waste bin over to them. With the other, he snagged a fresh cloth.

These are actually quite handy, once one gets the hang of them, he reflected.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

Elias quickly pulled it up and began to wretch and gag into it, stray bangs falling in front of his face and, thankfully, obscuring most of the sickening sight.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

As Elias hadn't requested he look away, Lewis continued to watch, letting the incipient change in energy wash over him.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

Next came the physical change, and Elias drew his knees close, trying to retain as much comfort as he could, but it hurt. He'd hardly noticed the shooting pain in his leg when he'd moved it; his focus had moved to the white-hot burning that was creeping up into his chest. He buried his face in his knees, and let out a cry.

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chatterghosts  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

His hair was lightening shades and growing longer, and Elias continued to writhe and sob and scream as the pain continued to assault his chest, his stomach and lungs and muscles. He couldn't tell if his clothes were growing looser or tighter, but his skin itched with fire just the same.

Minutes passed before the agonized sounds stopped, and Oliver remained curled up, ragged breathing very slowly evening out.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

Lewis set the clean cloth beside Oliver on the bed.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

Slowly, Oliver peeks up at Lewis from behind his hands, blue eyes watching his every movement nervously.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Hello, Oliver," he said with a soft smile.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

He slowly peels his hands away. With the transformation came the reminder that his shin wasn't in one piece, and he almost immediately cringes. "H-hi there, Lewis."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Ah, I suppose we'd better get that set," he said, looking to the injured leg.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"Hen hasn't, uh, spoken to me about it yet," he returns quietly. He didn't entirely recall when he'd learned Hen's name in the first place, but he was sure there was a reason for it.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited

"I'm sure he won't mind if I tend to a few things while he's off, given the circumstances. It'd be cruel to just leave it as is." He made his way around the room, gathering all the appropriate supplies. This would be so much easier if I hadn't been shot.

"May I see it?"

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"I, uh-- yes, I .. sure," he says, inching to the farther part of the cot. His leg put in a decent splint, but that was it.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

Now that Elias was Oliver, the splint's angle was wrong.

"If I palpate it, I may get a better idea what's going on, now that the swelling's gone down. But it will likely hurt."

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"Uh..how much? I mean, y- yes, that's fine, but," he tries to speak, but devolves into quiet stumbling over his words.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Yes?" asked Weir, tilting his head. "Take your time."

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

He continues to try and synthesize his words into coherency. "I...don't..I mean. How much is it gonna hurt is what I meant."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"In layman's terms...more than a kick to the shin, less than the transformation."

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"That's...fine," he responds. "Just do it as fast as possible."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Very well."

Lewis did just that, then reset the splint and wrapped Oliver's leg properly.

"Hm."

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

Aside from quiet, disgruntled noises, Oliver remains mostly quiet. "What?"

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"It's a bad break--literally--though not an irreparable one. You may end up walking with a limp, if it doesn't heal properly. Or you may make a full recovery, if it does. But in either case, you'll likely be able to walk unassisted."

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

The worry in his expression lessens slightly, a small smile of relief breaking across his face. "I was kind of worried.."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"As was I," Weir admitted. "But now that the swelling's down, it's much easier to tell. Hen's quite capable, and, from what I've seen, has access to medical treatments that aren't, well...typically, strictly Victorian. You're in good hands."

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

His shoulders sag, though it's an act of relief. "I, uh - thank you."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"You're welcome," said Lewis with a smile.

"Did you wish to ask or speak of anything else, while you're here?" he queried as he went to busy himself with the equipment required for Oliver's blood sample.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"Not..not really. Mostly just the, uh, Joseph thing, I s'pose." His hands hooked under his knees. "I want to thank ya- you, for, uh, treatin' me like a person.."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Ah, no thanks necessary," said Weir with a shrug. "What else would I have treated you as?" he asked rhetorically as he returned to Oliver's side.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"Most'a the lodgers side-eye me. 'Oh, you're Elias' counterpart,'" he mocks. "I don' wanna be compared with him.."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"I understand," said Lewis, nodding.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"Do you? News flies through here every day. You help everyone," he told Lewis.

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

He shrugged.

"I do what I can, as best I can. That's all anyone can do."

A pause, as looked down, considering.

A sadness in his eyes, he met Oliver's gaze again.

"But I know well what it is, to be an outsider." A sigh. "For most of my life, I've been one."

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

"Really?" His brow furrows. "I wouldn't take you for the type."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"Then I must be doing something right, to pull off that impression," he said with a laugh. He shook his head. "Or maybe I've just found the right group of misfits," he only half-joked, a hint of the Scottish accent creeping in unintentionally.

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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

The words sounded...oddly familiar, though Oliver wouldn't try to place it. "Heh..ya must be, I guess."

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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

"The Society's a good place. Makes the likes of you and me seem normal; no one cares about your past. A true rarity, in this age and place." He had the supplies at the ready. "So, shall I take that sample, then?"

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Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(chatterghosts Jekyll1886 ... FOR I AM THE HAWK!! CAW!! CAW!!)

The man woke up in a dank dark room. His head was pounding and he was sure the world was spinning even though he couldn't see it. Slowly he sat up, praying that he wouldn't loose his lunch, he was not a penguin! "What the hell happened...." he mutters under his breath trying to recall the past hours--days?

Slowly he begins to separate realty from drunken dreams. Orange giants, thunderstorms, needles, geese and doves.

Crack!

The lightening lit up the room--morgue. F*ck! He was in a morgue! Quickly he sat up and began searching for a door. Grouping around the cold metal room he finally found it! Freedom from this forsaken cage!

With the silence of an Owl he twisted the knob and opened the door, scanning for his captors. ...Abduction...not a new experience but this was certainly a strange way of going about it.

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(... You're having way too much fun with this, aren't you?)

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chatterghosts  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(( HUSH

HE IS THE HAWK

CAW CAW ))

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Catt Hatter  chatterghosts • 3 years ago

(CAW CAW!)

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago

(Case in point! There's a line of people wanting to interact with Drunky and as long as there are still people wanting to do so then I'm gonna keep going because I'm having way too much fun that you all seem to be having so much fun with him! :D )

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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

(This is all well and good, but it might cause some problems later on. Darn it, he really is a fun character!)

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Jekyll1886  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

Lewis's body remained asleep in the chair in the hallway. His spirit, however, had already entered the morgue, and now observed the freshly conscious drunkard.

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Hyde without a Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago

Seeing the gold goose out cold, the man snickered. Some guard he turned out to be. But that's what you get for having a goose do a swan's job.

Quietly he slipped out of the infirmary and flew down the halls looking for a way out. Door after door was locked and there seemed to be no end in sight to the twisting turning maze that was the Society. Not even an internal compass would get him out of this mess. Taking a swig from his flask, which thankfully was not confiscated, he continued his search.

He could tell by the lack of natural light it was late (or early in the morning) though the eerie silence and deserted building spooked him all the same. Logically there should not have been anyone roaming the corridors at this time and it was probably a good thing too, less they tried to lock him up again or tag him for an experiment.

Nearing his wits end, he began to contemplate the success of climbing out a window, when his luck took a turn for the better. An unlocked door!

With out a sound he edged the door open and peered inside.

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chatterghosts  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago

The infirmary was barren, save a dark-haired man in one of the cots. The soundless door opening left him unaware, and he stared idly at his hands.

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