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It's Maple Manor...you know, the place where stuff happens. So yeah.
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He waves briefly to Umbra, but patiently waits his turn by the doorway.
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And all the little hairs on the back of Kidei's neck stand up in unison. She doesn't seem to notice, really. Zip is visibly annoyed at this, but then its eye widens and it ducks into her scarf, peering out warily.
"...Erm, Stan? Is it just me, or is there a draft in here?"
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Umbra quickly moved out of the way for the two new guests, not saying a word. It wasn't like she was getting paid for this...not that she knew of, anyways. As she turned around, she naturally happened to notice Ignis. Knowing his ways all too well, she immediately gave him a 'don't act like I don't know what you're looking at' glare.
"Good point! Anyways, teaching normal people magic is totally possible! Probably, maybe. If not, Ignis probably has some kind of weird artifact that would give you magical powers...or, at least, ones that would curse you. Curses are magical, right? So that totally counts! Huh, maybe those shades are cursed. That would suck." Nette started rambling as well.
"...But, anyways! If you do get a bunch of ladies and stuff with your sexy powers, I'm totally going to be your head lady, you got that? But that's only if you turn all cool and stuff!"
+1 love get!
Alex is now at level 'guy who I'm willing to hang around'!
"Well, the door's been open for a little while, now...it might just be the---oh, hey, look! New people!" Stan looked over at Kerry and Mr. White. He seemed a little unnerved by Mr. White, but quickly snapped out of it...I mean, Stan wouldn't want anyone to feel that way about himself! Golden rule!
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He ran to an unoccupied room, and slammed it's door shut after going in. She then locked the door to get her stuff ready.
Had some T-shirts, and Jeans that went in a closet and drawer respectively. Less expectedly were panties and skirts going in her drawer, as well as a dress or so, and of course a few maid outfits too.
She set up a TV, as well, as a few video gaming consoles, namely a Sega Dreamcast, and a Playstation 3.
She, then covered her bed with a light blue set of sheets.
"There we go. Looks great!"
With that, he unlocked the door and walked out.
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THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A DRAFT.
tried warning you but did you listen
dol arrah protect us/I wanna hug it/stop thinking that
"E-excuse me," she squeaks, color draining from her face, "I've got to go water my tentacles. Petunias. Anyway," she says, smiling nervously. "Anyway."
She turns and runs like hell to get upstairs (nearly bumping into Kerry in the process), finds an unoccupied room, and locks herself inside.
White, meanwhile, takes no notice of her (or appears not to, at least). "A bit tacit this morning, mm?" he says, turning that grin on Umbra. "I like that word. We're going to be such fine compatriots, you and I. I assume you're one of the maids of the manor, yes~?"
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"Oh...um...yeah! Yeah sure! That sounds...swell! I'll keep that in mind!" he responded, still a little flabbergasted (I love that word) at Nette's request.
"Do...do you know anyone else here? Mainly the grouchy looking lady with the black hair and the...big red monster thing?" he then asked.
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Richard popped out of existence and went to the roof. Yeah.
"Here again? How strange.. Curse you narrator!"
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"Hel-"
wow she ran quickly, so she decided to follow her, but the door was closed.
He knocks at the door.
"You alright...?"
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Kidei's door opens a crack and a pair of yellow, snakelike eyes peer out from the darkness inside. "Okay? Yes, of course I'm okay! Why wouldn't I be okay, everything's going just--just swimmingly! Oh gods that is a terrible word. Hi."
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"W-well, you kind of just... ran in, and you're a bit pale. Plus, you seem a bit...ummmnn stressed?
A-anyways, don't want to intrude, but...just wanted to make sure you weren't sick."
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Naturally, Umbra was kind of...off-put by Mr. White. Sure, she's a stone-cold murderer and all, but, come on. Is there anyone who wouldn't be creeped out by that grin? Either way, she tried her damnedest not to show it.
"That's...correct." she began, finding it increasingly difficult to look at that unnatural smile. "And you are...?"
"Huh? What's gotten into her...?" Curious, Stan followed Kidei over to the room she had locked herself in, being sure to politely wave to Kerry. Once the whole introductory-waving bit was over, he focused back on Kidei.
"Uh, Kidei...? Is something wrong...?"
{{best word ever}}
"Huh? Oh, yeah, I know those two! The grouchy chick is Umbra Tear...I don't really know her much personally, but I do know that she kills stuff or something. So that should be fun. The tentacle monster is Stan. He's a pretty cool guy, but he's really sensitive about people pointing out his species. Stan's ashamed of all of the raping most tentacle monsters do, so he doesn't like being grouped with them. Good thing, though...I wouldn't want to be a maid in a manor with a standard tentacle monster as a master. Hell, I wouldn't want to be a master working in a manor with a standard tentacle monster..."
truth
Up on the roof, Ch---Richard would notice some random frail-looking lady in a maid outfit sweeping.
I'm pretty sure she wasn't here the last time Richard was up here, and I'm also pretty sure she wasn't inside earlier...
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Kerry shook the girl he's meetings hand. dear God does this guy go through buckets of lotion? His hands are smooth as a lady's.
Aanyways, after a quick shake, he waved his hand at the tentacle monster that waved at him, with a touch of a blush, as a bit of a natural reaction.
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"Oh, I doubt you'd want my real name," says the new fellow, meanwhile, "but you may call me Mr. White, if you'd like~." He bows theatrically.
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"Great, so we have a serial killer working here. I certainly hope we we don't have another murder like last time, God forbid." Alex commented, sounding not as enthusiastic as he should when there's a killer in the mansion. "But...the tentacle monster sounds like a nice guy though."
And then Alex realized that they were sitting in his room for what seemed like ages. He quickly got up, looking down at Nette. "We've been sitting in my room for a while. Why don't we uh...socialize with the others? Couldn't really hurt in getting to know about your staff and co-workers more!" he asked her.
Yoko
At the entrance a very young, red haired woman entered the mansion. She had a little skull pin in her hair, and wearing a somewhat semi-revealing two piece maid outfit. Oh, did I forget to mention that she had a big ol' rifle slung on her back, taller than her? No? Well I just did, tough shit sherlock.
"Certainly 'aint no teaching job, but I gotta stay somewhere for a while, and this seems like the only good offer..."
She turned over to Umbra, who seemed to be in just the most pleasant mood standing by the door, greeting all the new people. And even more happy for Umbra, Yoko didn't arrive in time to hear Mr. White ask the exact same question she was going to ask just now to Umbra.
"I assume this is Maple Manor, correct?"
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"...Another master, I'm guessing? I shouldn't be surprised at this point."
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A bit to her self, and quieter he just had to say what he was thinking.
"Those are some bitchin' sunglasses... I mean... wow."
Huh, wow those glasses might have even made her voice a bit squeakier than usual.
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Stan scanned through his memories, trying to understand what made Kidei so...uh...weird.
"Does this have anything to do...with the new arrivals?" he asked, not sounding entirely confident in his hypothesis (yay big word). Regardless of his amount of confidence, he was apparently so concerned about Kidei's mental health that he didn't even give a friendly 'sup to Ignis.
Umbra raised an eyebrow, either amused or confused (WHOO RHYMING) by his behavior.
"Right, right..." she was about to give out her name when Yoko came in. If someone asked her that question one more time she was going to
"Yes. Yes it is."
"All right, sounds cool to me!" she nodded in response, opening the door for her 'master'...which will probably go down as the only thing Nette does that involves working. Except the door was already open, soooo...
Well, we'll just let Nette have this moment.
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Just as Richiles/Chard said that, a
"Well, that's convenient, but it still does not explain how you got up here. Did you climb? Or perhaps.. you came up here the same way I did? Punching oneself in the face to cause a rip in time and space? Surely you could not have done that.."
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"...Uh, just, um... F-fathe--Family issues," she mumbles. "Long story." Not a yes, not a no, but--oh dear. Zip winces and ducks back into her scarf.
White looks up from his bow, smile lessening somewhat (thank God) on sighting Yoko. "Fellow help. Hm... Those look awfully impractical. Poor girl~."
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"Uhm...thanks..."
he said to Nette as she opened an already opened door for him. He began heading to the main entrance of the mansion, seeing if anyone new was there, or if he would bump into anyone new on the way there.
Yoko
"Ah, thanks!" she said to Umbra in a cheerful tone. She was about to greet herself to Umbra when a certain creepy butler commented on her. She turned around to Mr. White, her face giving off a "what did you just say" vibe.
"...What do you mean by "those"?" she asked, the tone of her voice being a complete 180 compared to when she was talking to Umbra.
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"So, how are the Tinted Spectacles working out for you? Already feeling them at work, I bet."
Oh, Ignis. You and your plots.
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After seeing Charles's picture, Tourmaline stood frozen in place, too terrified to move until Charles left.
The moment Charles left sight, Tourmaline took off in the direction Alexis disappeared to.
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"I came down from up there..." the woman answered, pointing at the sky. "...to get a job here, sir.
"Oh...uh, I guess...okay, then? Is there, uh, anything I can do to help...?" Stan asked, shrugging.
"You're welcome~!" Nette said cheerfully, following him. She had been here less than an hour and she already felt accomplished! That ten bucks was soooo hers.
AND THEN THERE WAS IGNIS
"'Sup, Ignis?"
Umbra decided to back away a bit and watch, hoping Yoko would put that rifle to good use. Sure, Mr. White hadn't done anything particularly awful...but he was just creepy. It's okay for creepy people to get shot in the face.
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She feels like she totally got her self caught, so she heads to her room...
Siince, however she's technically a girl, she decides she'll introduce herself again, and goes back to her room.
"Craaap... I am not good at keeping this secret at all, am I?"
A few minutes of undefined stripping and re-clothing her self in a maid outfit she noticed something else...
That she couldn't just go right through the door she came in from, as that'd look quite suspicious. ...so Instead, she decides to climb down the manor, with some rope.
...And actually fell kind of well...knocking her self right out.
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"The eyes," White says, drawing just a little too close for comfort. "Not even a glimmer of nightvision, neither ultraviolet nor infrared... What did you think I was referring to~?"