Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:08:54 PM)
(This user has entered Coffee shop, just down the cornor) (IP = 64.19.251.196)
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:09:16 PM)
(We talking the Quarter?)
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:09:31 PM)
(not picky)
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:09:45 PM)
(Hrm... okay....)
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:10:41 PM)
*The French market, on the south east edge of the Vieux Carre, a small family ran cafe just across Decatur street from the Market Proper. Craig was walking along, paused to ponder, did he want something or was he going to wander more...? hard to say - but it smelled good to him...*
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:11:15 PM)
*pandora walked inside. It had been many many monthes since any mage had heard from pandora. She looked well a bit on the sleepy side and she streached as she entered the sop with some shopping bags*
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:11:59 PM)
*he was in affliciton jeans and a black t-shirt, and his usual black converse all stars. he thought to himself for a moment, then caught sight of Pandora, did a double take, and headed inside quietly behind her... see if she noticed....*
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:15:07 PM)
*It seemed she did, though he wasn't sure at frist till they were at the counter*" a mocha for me and then what ever my friend wishes as well"
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:16:00 PM)
*Craig held up a sawbuck* Cafe Au Lait please. A big one. I want to vibrate from all the caffein when I leave here. *he nodded to Pandora* Long time no see.
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:16:36 PM)
" well you know i hormones and all that"
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:17:16 PM)
*He nodded once slowly* All resolved now?
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:17:22 PM)
*she paid and then moved to a table once they had thier drinks sitting so they could watch everyone*
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:17:39 PM)
"
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:18:20 PM)
*he followed Pandora and plopped down opposite her* So, I got news. Don't even know how big the news is, but I got some.
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:18:43 PM)
" well yes and no i mean i'm no longer pregant"
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:19:09 PM)
*he nodded* I know. I heard.
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:19:14 PM)
" well i'd like to hear, been monthes since i talked to anyone"
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:19:26 PM)
"oh? what you hear?"
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:19:40 PM)
*He leaned back* So don't be such a stranger? You heard about the woman they found dead down in venice?
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:21:24 PM)
" nope"
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:23:57 PM)
*He dug into his pocket and pulled out a little ivory figure. yes, it was real ivory, and old. A carved turtle, intricate and detailed, and this he sat on the table* You know first and foremost that this city is fractured.... *There was a subtle change to the sound in the cafe around them then...* Well, a few months ago several of us found a magi from Baton Rouge. She had been abducted by nephani, and tortured in a basement down in Venice. She was killed by her captors, but we were able to.... abscond with a laptop from the location from under the police's noses.
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:24:36 PM)
-nods listening intently-
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:25:18 PM)
We finally managed to crack the laptop about ten days ago and it has a note in there, something we don't understand, happening on the Winter Solstice - December 21st.
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:25:59 PM)
-nods-
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:26:14 PM)
It said "Dark sun on the solstice. Darkness floods the river and fills the twisted tunnels. Let the dark light shine on." I don't know what it means, and I'm running out of time, but it's... Nephandi, so it can't be good.
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:27:13 PM)
" agreed, not sure how i can help though..other then maybe look things up"
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:28:01 PM)
*he shrugged* Take the message, be aware, watch for danger on the 21st, and if you come across anything let us know.
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:28:34 PM)
-nods-" well that i can do..."
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:28:57 PM)
"so whom is still around?"
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:30:18 PM)
Me, kay, Lyric, Tarra. Jareth and his crew? I have no idea, but I know Jareth is still in town. Isabel. *he thought for a moment* I know there's a handful of others, but I really don't know. We've *got* no place to gather that's safe so it's touch and go.
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:30:52 PM)
" still no where saf? did the new meeting place fall to?"
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:31:16 PM)
what new meeting place? The LaLaurie house? What in god's name makes you think that's safe?
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:31:47 PM)
" it's not? i thought we chased that old lady away"
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:33:37 PM)
*he blinked* Pandora, please tell me your vision is not *that* short and narrow? *he leaned forward* The Technocrats control every node in the area, within a hundred miles, and that place was the sole exception. First, all the Technocrats have to do is *sense* that place and they'll realize it's someone else's, then watch it and pretty soon they will begin to mark everyone who comes and goes as awakened and NOT technocracy and what does that leave us with? Not to mention the NASTY resonance of a... infernalist... that's lingering.
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:35:41 PM)
"I see and remeber i was pretty well i had other things on my mind.. i still haven't.. i've still not gotten to the bottom of what the lawyer told me.. i was highly worried that was tecros and also i needed to be contantly using life why do you think i went underground?"
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:37:12 PM)
*He shrugged* I don't assume when it comes to our ilk. Listen, bottom line, until and unless the Technocratic stranglehold on nodes is eased up in this city I don't trust any single node they don't control. I'm supposed to meet with jareth later tonight to give him essentially the same information I just gave you. But, if you see anyone else, share it with them so people know to be wary when the solstice is here in two weeks.
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:38:24 PM)
-nods-' you know i will mind if i come with? my qusi-mother-in-law kicked me out of the house for the day"
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:40:03 PM)
*he shrugged again* I don't know how enthused jareth is going to be to meet with me and Kay. His words precisely: "I've been an ass hole to him since he left". Yeah, well, maybe if he'd TOLD me he was actually leaving instead of me hearing it from word on the streets that he was in another cabal?
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:41:05 PM)
" he was in your cabal?"
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:41:38 PM)
*He laughed* Oh you don't know?
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:42:27 PM)
" I don't.. i've never been -in- a cabal, to me if your part of the socity, i'll work with you if i need to"
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:44:00 PM)
*he sipped his Cafe au Lait.* I met Jareth when he was stumbling down a street in Seattle a little over three years ago I believe - or slightly under three... he had on rags, had no idea who he was, had no place to stay. Amnesia. I attempted to help him however I could, as did Kay and Tarra, until we left Seattle. his nickname was CJ because we didn't know who he was. Alan Lee - Alley. he stumbled out of an Alley. The name Jareth was coined by kaydence, because he didn't like CJ - Craig Junior - so she said he looked like Jareth, the Goblin King from the movie Labyrinth. When we fled Seattle and the Technocracy there he came with us.
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:45:25 PM)
_nods listening-" yeah Amnesia sucks pond rocks"
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:46:51 PM)
" and yeah i can definetly see why you'd be pissed if he left without saying anything"
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:48:06 PM)
So after we came to New Orleans about, oh, six months? nine months? he up and left. Says he let Tarra know, Tarra says she don't remember it, and when I asked him why the hell he didn't say shit to me he said it was because "we had a communication issue." you know, I've *never* failed to answer my phone or email or respond to a note - he left because he wanted to go hang with new friends. I woudln't have cared, but if he knew we had a "communications issue" and he told Tarra? He intentionally bowed out. And then he pulled that bullshit stunt with the technocratic stronghold - Monday morning quarterbacking when I'm taking bullets for the awakened... fuck that noise. I'll warn him of the threat, but I don't need his drama queen bullshit.
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:50:51 PM)
" this is why i've always well been wary of cabals.. i want to be -sure- it will work you know? but at the same time he owes you big time for taking him in... "
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:51:57 PM)
*he waved a hand* He doesn't owe me jack nor shit, but if he's going to skip out without even bothering to tell me he's leaving? THEN he's going to call me an ass hole because I was upset when I had to hear about it off the streets? Fuck. That.
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:56:32 PM)
-nods-" yeah well happens... so bryan and others moved on?"
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:57:01 PM)
*He shrugged* I know Doc is still around.... from time to time. haven't seen Bryan and Xander is a ghost.
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:57:18 PM)
-nods-
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:57:56 PM)
So, anyway, that's news. Be careful, in two weeks shit might get real.
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 8:58:26 PM)
-nods-" gocha, you got my number?"
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:59:28 PM)
I do.
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 8:59:34 PM)
If anything new arises....
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 9:00:45 PM)
" same i'll call you.. and we should get togeather again more.. "
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 9:01:23 PM)
*He shrugged* I'm around. here and there. *He picked up the Netsuke - it was like the cafe suddenly got noisy around them* Always around.
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 9:03:53 PM)
" alright, be good now you hear"
Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 9:04:27 PM)
*she gave him a smiles her eyes brighting just a bit*
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 9:05:58 PM)
*he waved as he took his coffee and headed out into the New Orleans night....* you too... you too...
Craig Killian (Dec 7, 2011 9:06:05 PM)
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Pandora Smith (Dec 7, 2011 9:06:11 PM)
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