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Welcome to the first last_arrival! If you're curious about what's going on here or are thinking about applying, feel free to take us for a test drive. Scenario: Your character has just arrived via the Return Point and taken the uneventful cart ride to a vast city known only to the locals as “the City”. You have no memories that go back 20 years (or less, up to you). You may have some strange new powers but those come with a rather nasty side effect, don't they? If you had a lot of powers, you'll either notice that they're gone altogether or that those nasty side effects are equivalent or worse than the power you're trying to use. Lucky for you it seems like the City is already populated. Unlucky for you, they don't exactly have the best handle on this situation either. Locations: City Streets You're fresh off the cart and just checked into the keep. Now you're free to wander the City and see what there is to see. Open Air Market You've checked in, sure but now you're still milling about the market. Feel free to see if anything you have will be an even trade. Tipping the Velvet Welcome to the brothel. We don't need to tell you what goes on here. Maybe you're looking for a job, maybe you're looking for a good time. Maybe you just want a good vodka drink. Keep threads R rated for the test drive, please. Once the game opens, smut threads can be posted, but need to be locked to community members only Fortunas Care to test your luck in the City's casino? Trade's pretty-much open to whatever the dealer wants. There's a full bar, a restaurant, and plenty of shiny things to distract you. Apartments Everyone lives in the Apartments. Feel free to settle in, find a nice-ish place and hopefully the doors lock. Rules: ♥ Please make your subject line follow this format: Name | Canon | Location [Action/Network] ♥ Please use this header for your first post so people know how to tag you <b>4th Walling Allowed:</b> Yes / No <b>Rating Limits:</b> <b>Extra Notes:</b> Game Opens March 20th 2018
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[gotaholdonme]

She follows behind and, as she walks, she finds herself mimicking the way he moves, stepping in time with him until they reach the place. It's only a physical act though, her demeanor beyond that is still scattered and shaky at best.

"Loki." She says her name with an air of nervousness, like she's waiting to get punished for the answer. Admitting who she was hardly did her any favors before now but she struggles to come up with a better, or even more convincing lie.

There's a part of her that says going off with strange men is probably not the best idea she's ever had but, then again, going with the people she's known has proven far worse than anything a stranger has done to her, so what does she know?

[trip_the_velvet_fantastic]

Huh. He would swear his shadow has gotten slightly out os sync with him there for the last part of the walk. It's eerie, but it's also sort of comfortable. It seems like something that would sell very, very well indeed.

"Well, Loki," he says, smiling over his shoulder as they reach the door. "It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Gibson and..." he opens the door, revealing a clean, uncomplicated entryway, but also Luna in a chemise which would politely be described as sheer, waiting past the coat closet door with her hands on her hips.

He doesn't miss a beat, "This is my hostess Luna. Luna, is there anyone in bar?"

Luna however takes a split second to recover her words. "Not so much."

"Excellent. Thank you."

[gotaholdonme]

She makes a small noise in her throat as she sees Luna. It doesn't matter what she's wearing so much as the fact that she is rather pretty in and of herself. Loki feels her heart flutter a little, her mind dance at the idea of reaching out and touching the material, or even more, touching the skin.

Contact, actual, physical contact is something she's not had in about ten years. Not in any way that mattered. Someone smacking across the face or jerking her to and from place to place isn't the same as a more gentle touch.

She almost misses the fact that they aren't stopping to talk to her, not really. But her vision catches up with her brain and she's looking around at the rest o the space, trying to get her mind off the desire to just reach out and touch.

"Hello, Luna." She swallows hard, then directs her attention to Gibson again, tilting her head at him and doing her best to not let her attention drift.

[trip_the_velvet_fantastic]

Nature of his beast and all, Noa can taste that spark of attraction, catch it like a bit of silk thread on his fingers. It's not at all what he was expecting, even from what little time he's known Loki, but it is damn interesting.

Charming too-- not merely as a distraction, but in the fact Luna's tiny head tilt very much indicates to him that she snagged on it somewhere too. And then she stretches her arms over her head so the chemise rides up, so she can just stretch in this almost, just almost natural way.

"Sorry. Long night last night. Anyway, nice to meet you. The bar's this way. I think we have toast."

Noa resolves to conjure toast from the ether if it means seeing where this is going.

[gotaholdonme]

Loki watches, a little transfixed by the action. She's trying to keep ehr mind from drifting, from ghosting over memories that aren't there but there's something to be had, something about beautiful women and blood and so many other things that she can't quite reach.

The idea of food idly crosses her mind but it doesn't stick. She's too used to being hungry, too used to the pang in her stomach and the way it lurches forward at the mention, to acknowledge it. After being denied for so long, after wanting and never getting, she's used to ignoring things like that.

"Long night," she echoes, saying the words like she's trying to decipher them, rather than just echoing. "What--what is it that you two do here?"

She probably should have asked that before now but....

[trip_the_velvet_fantastic]

"Oh, nothing illegal," Noa mentions, the brightness in his voice genuine-- he is, after all, very proud of his business.

Luna though does interrupt him, also with cheer, and very much to Loki rather than him. "So much as stuff's illegal around here. It's kind of complicated, but we're not like, hitmen or anything."

"How would that benefit our customers? I daresay we're run out sooner or later."

"Also, it's messy."

"Anyway, this is a brothel and full-service bar."

[gotaholdonme]

She watches them talk back and forth, eyes jumping to one then the other but always falling back to Luna. Loki is listening and doesn't bat an eye when they finally get around to saying what the establishment is about.

"A brothel." She nods once. "I see." Then a little smile crosses her face. "You give people something to feel good about. That's very kind of you."

[trip_the_velvet_fantastic]

Noa pushes up on his lifts again, instictively this time. "I do what I can and it seems to work for everyone involved."

Luna meanwhile has her teeth in her bottom lip and is pretty clearly trying not to laugh. "Uh, me included," she mentions. "Been working here... gosh, I don't even..."

"Four years."

"Met all kinds of interesting people." She gives Loki a tiny wink with that.

[gotaholdonme]

She nods, tongue running over her bottom lip for a moment as she considers that last sentence.

"Interesting people," she smiles a little. "That sounds nice. I don't-- meet people often." She laughs, realizing that must sound a bit odd. "I didn't get out a lot before this."

[trip_the_velvet_fantastic]

"You're out now," says Luna. "In fact, you're about as out as you can get." She makes it sound like a charming charming prospect even as she adds, "We're from all kinds of crazy places, but we're here together now."

"And some of us get along like napalm and trees," Noa mentions.

"But everybody's mostly decent here."

"Customer service goes a long way."

[gotaholdonme]

There's something about hearing her say it, say that she is free, that makes Loki start laughing. She's out, she's out, and she's not going back now. She's out and even if there's something chasing her, she can run.

It takes her a moment to get a hold of herself but then she's smiling, not small and nervous cheery and maybe a little manic. "Good customer service can go a long way as well as a gob well done."

She pushes back a few strands of hair that had fall en into her face, then looks between them again. "And you two feel like you work well together."