Expendable

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It rhymed with Suzy. Or perhaps it was deliberate and he wants to be haunted. Ghosts are very hard to pin down.

Haunted forever.

@Expendable I love the idea of Qaymu having met Velvet somewhere in the past during her edgelord phase. When did he go to sleep? Since if he woke up a century back, she'd be down by then.

@Lemons

@Lemons Was she in London around the 1860's? I left a few vague details, so he might have gotten turned around and wound up at some undeveloped area that later became part of the municipality.

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I wonder if there might be various secret organizations and groups - those who hunt what goes bump in the night. As well as those monsters wanting to protect their own existence, wanting to strike back?

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Qaymu

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Bldg 1, Ground floor stairwell > First Floor stairwell landing

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Velvet bothered him - not that she was a vampire, he'd ran into many, before. There were VC vampires in Vietnam, newly turned, who tried to drink his blood when the patrol stopped at an abandoned village. It was like watching fireflies as they burned away, not even leaving ash. The idiot butter bars filed a report, which HQ rejected, telling him to stop smoking Mary Jane. Just to be sure, he erased the patrol's memories of it - even Max's. You never knew if a hunter would wind up reading the report and come looking.

She, despite appearances, was more than old enough to survive drinking his blood - but who knew what affect that might have on her? But really, it was she looked so damned... familiar. Had he seen her before? Where? When? Could it have been more than once?

Was it the World's Fair? Maybe the Smithsonian museum? Or was it during one of the wars he fought in? Perhaps one he'd smuggled out, just another station in the monster underground railroad, moving the dispossessed of the war to where they'd be safe.

Movement made Qaymu shift his head to the window, where he saw letters drawing themselves on the fogged glass.

"Huh," he said, nonplussed, then points towards it. "So who's doing that again? Floozie?"

What Are You Listening To?

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Actually I have to wonder just how the snakes get rid of their waste?

Robots Awaken

Are these robots, which can take a variety of machine forms, or androids with human-like forms?

love death + robots

Lost In Space

No. 18

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Qaymu - "Video games? I think I've played Pong a few times. Tried Asteroids in a bar, once. Solitaire was on my computer when I bought it, I've played that several times. Why, are there more games?"

Qaymu telling the story of St. George and the Dragon. "Once upon a time, there was a wicked, evil knight..."

Halloween

Is there a monster bar? Preferably off-premises.

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Qaymu

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Bldg 1, Ground floor stairwell > First Floor stairwell landing

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A blue transportation circle appeared on the floor next to the stairs to the first floor, and then Qaymu shimmered into being, floating briefly over the floor as his body seemed to sharpen and fill out. The next moment he was falling, landing on his feet with a gasp of pain. His left arm flailed out, desperately grabbing the handrail and holding on for dear life until the nausea subsided.

His human disguise faded, revealing his scaly bronze head. Qaymu looked down at the tied handkerchief in his right hand - then as he heard voices above, abruptly shoved it in the pocket of his trench coat. Rolling his right wrist, he checked his watch and scowled. The transportation circle had returned him only minutes after he departed from the condo, giving him the last few hours to relive. He must have left something out when he was reciting the spell.

Stealing himself, he climbed the stairs, still wearing his garrison hat.

Arriving at the first floor landing, Qaymu's eyes darted to each of them - Theria, the other Max, Velvet, and Iris.

"May I ask," Qaymu rasps, his voice deeper than usual, "What the hell is going on, here?"

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