LadyAnnaLee

The Lesser Evils. (Play is live!)

Hello everybody!

Posts are due tomorrow. Just a reminder. I'm looking forward to all the posts!

As for @Pascal and her question. I actually have a shift scheduled for my birthday. I have yet to decide if I'm skipping it or not. I do plan to spend my "weekend" replaying Shadows of Almia, recoloring my hair, and getting way too much Chinese food. I might do an Argenti post on Tuesday. So, no real birthday plans. One of the cons of being an adult. Bleh.

Does anyone have opinions on calling out on your birthday?

Anyways. All the love!

LadyAnnaLee!

The Lesser Evils. (Play is live!)

Argenti didn’t really want a full party to go with him. Two was fine, but four others was not ideal at all. However, as Setepenre had said earlier, no one should be alone. Which meant they would either being doing things as a group or in two groups, one pair and one trio. They couldn’t leave Cain alone. That would not be ideal. And they couldn’t leave Albert alone. They really couldn’t leave Albert behind. He didn’t even have a phone! If Argenti had his way, it would be him, Cain, and Setepenre to hit up his contacts. Juniper and Albert could go get the angel a phone. However, Argenti wasn’t going to take charge of this group in any way shape or form. The mere idea made him shudder.

So, instead he shrugged, “Alright. Full party for the shady kink club.” He gathered a few files together, “We should clean up first if we are all leaving.”

It wasn’t really a shady kink club. No one here needed to know that. Amelia went to great lengths to make it seem like a shady kink club, and Argenti wasn’t going to be the one to ruin all her hard work. Besides, if people thought it was a shady kink club maybe they would back out of going with him. It was a kink club. It just wasn’t shady. Amelia used contracts, bouncers, and magic to ensure that it was the safest place in The City to explore kink. Consent was paramount. That was why it was Argenti’s favorite club in The City. It was fairly well known and spoke about in both the mundane and supernatural communities. Still, only members, and honorary members, like Argenti, knew that it was 100 percent consent based.

He finished gathering up the files and held them out, “I have no bag to carry these and no spatial magic to store them. Anyone have any ideas.”

They also needed to figure out what to do with the left-over pastries and coffee. There wasn’t an extreme amount of either. If the succubus had to guess The Detective had decided to buy enough that there were plenty of options so that way the seven guests wouldn’t need to fight over one specific pastries. Argenti supposed that they could offer the leftovers to the hotel staff but didn’t want to make assumptions about what the rest of the group might think. He did grab another one for himself, this one chocolate iced, but made no other moves towards them.

He also pulled out his phone to add Juniper’s number. He took a minute to go over the seven sins in his head. He couldn’t add her as JuniperG, G for gluttony, since Greed also started with a G. So, he added her as Juniper Gluttony. That was not her last name, but Argenti didn’t care. Eventually everyone would be added to his contacts with their first name and their sin. Argenti also took a key from Albert. His key had a lily on it. It probably didn’t mean anything. At least the succubus hoped it didn’t mean anything. He stuffed it in his pocket before he could think too much about it. There was no point.

The Lesser Evils. (Play is live!)

As an announcement. Dragonfly 9 has decided to resign from the role-play. So there are 5 of us now. I will be slightly retconning things to says Ivan left at the same time Aodh did. I hope that is alright. As always please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you for your understanding!

LadyAnnaLee

The Lesser Evils. (Play is live!)

Hello! So posts are due on 09/12/2022! Which happens to be 2 days before my birthday. Just so everybody knows.

That's all I've got to say.

Love,

LadyAnnaLee

The Lesser Evils. (Play is live!)

As a reminder, posts are due today! I'm not planning on a post for The Detective, or anyone else for now, but that doesn't change the fact that we are still on a two week cycle. At some point tomorrow I'll post the next due date in the OoC. Please post or let me know why. I really do appreciate it. Thank you so much!

Have amazing days!

LadyAnnaLee

The Lesser Evils. (Play is live!)

Argenti looked up from his current file as the group was asked about staying at the bed and breakfast. He knew that Cain had mentioned all of them staying there and that was a reason why the succubus shouldn’t. This Cain seemed to be attempting to take charge of the situation. Argenti was willing to work with these people. He didn’t need any of them trying to boss him around. Still, he didn’t have a place to stay right now. Since he had gotten to The City, he had been bouncing from place to place unless he was in the middle of taking care of monsters. It wouldn’t hurt to have a place to stay without having to worry about who would be trying to kill him. He didn’t trust anyone else in this group, not really, but he had a feeling he didn’t really have to worry about them until the Outcasts were gone and the Innocents were safe once again.

And it wouldn’t hurt for someone to take charge of their little group of five. At least Argenti thought it was five because two of them got up and left without saying a single word to anyone. Anyways the five of them had strong personalities they could either let someone take charge or spend all their time arguing and voting over what to do and then the odds of them getting anything done would be next to zero. It was just to deal with the Outcasts. Then Argenti could leave this City and never seen any of them every again. He could handle orders for that long as long as they were combat orders.

So Argenti grinned as he pointed at Cain, “Like the boss says, it would be wise to move this to someplace where we know we aren’t being watched.” He nodded at Albert, “I would be honored at pleased to spend time at your bed and breakfast. However,” Argenti stood and stretch his hands out to the ceiling, “Right now I have a few people I would like to talk to about the Outcasts and the Innocents. Does anyone want to come with me?”

Honestly Argenti made the invitation for two reasons. The first was that he didn’t want anybody thinking that he was hiding things. The second was that it wasn’t entirely safe to go alone. If the Outcasts realized that The Detective had brought in outside help the five of them were easily the biggest threat and it would be wise to eliminate them before they became and even bigger threat. However, that didn’t mean that Argenti thought anyone would take him up on his offer. He was prepared to go alone. That didn’t mean that he wanted to. He just could if he had to.

Then something happened that Argenti couldn’t describe. He had to grit his teeth to remain standing as what felt like a wave of magical energy crossed the city. The succubus knew that anyone with any real level of magic would feel it too. Something had happened, but he wasn’t sure what. He didn’t know enough about magic to know what. It felt almost like The Detective, so Argenti wasn’t too worried. Maybe it was some sort of prep for their Sleep. Maybe it was their Sleep itself. Whatever it was it marked the beginning of something, mostly likely the war between the Outcasts and the Lessers. Whatever it was it changed things.

Argenti laughed tightly, “I would appreciate it if someone came with me.”

The Lesser Evils. (Play is live!)

The Detective did their best to refrain from sighing as Aodh and Ivan just got up and walked out. The rest of them confirmed payment. Setepenre wanted to keep close to her family. That would be one phone call laced with Persuasion. Argenti wanted to destroy all the ways to summon him. That was less easy, but doable. The same was true for Juniper’s request for first access across The City. Albert said he was just helping for story which was the easiest payment of all. Cain was willing to help for a price to be discussed in the future. That was worrisome, but they could and would figure it out. The Detective stood and nodded. It was time for them to go.

They smiled, “It seems that you have things figured out.” They reached into their pocket to pull out an external hard drive and slid it across the table to the young Ms. Murik, “Here. This contains all my notes on the Outcasts and the Innocents they have killed.” Their smile was down right mysterious, “It also has some interesting information on The City. If you can find it.” Their smile widened, “Good luck!” They grew solemn again as they looked around the room again, “This room is reserved for the rest of the day. Feel free to stay, make plans, and enjoy the rest of the treats.” They nodded once, “I’m off to Sleep. Good Luck to all of you. And happy hunting.

With that The Detective put on their coat and was out of room. They had done all they could to help. Now all they could do was Sleep in order to maintain the barrier. Well, they could also make a few phone calls. The first was to smooth things over for the Lesser Pride to take care of her pride. She would have the required documents on the mail with in one to two weeks. She would have an email confirming things in a matter of moments. Persuasion was damn useful. The second phone call was to make sure that a VIP first access all-inclusive ticket for the upcoming fashion week was sent to the Lesser Gluttony’s email. Hopefully she wouldn’t be too distracted with shows to help with the Outcasts.

Then The Detective cheated just a little bit. They could walk to where their Sleep would take place, but instead they let The City carry them to the small grotto near the very foundations of The City. It was lined with comfortable blankets and pillows made of all natural materials. They had been asked if they needed help with their Sleep but the truth was they didn’t. They sealed the grotto off so it could only be reach via magic and then pulled of their shoes and switched to pajamas. That wasn’t strictly necessary since they wouldn’t exactly be aware during the Sleep but it would help them when and if they Woke. The Detective curled into the comfortable nest and was Sleeping in moments. The Barrier around The City pulsed as Magic swept over it making it stronger. Nothing with more magic than a hedge witch wouldn’t be getting out or in. The City was now an arena for the battle with the Outcasts. Hopefully that would give the Lessers a chance.

Posts Due

August 29th, 2022

The Lesser Evils. (Play is live!)

The Detective has exited! I know I said two to three cycles, but it seemed to flow better here. Hopefully now that the introduction is out of the way we will have an easier time of things. Hopefully. If you think of something your character should have asked prior to this point just drop it in the OoC. We'll figure out if we can recon things of if Juniper can find the answer on the external hard drive. If that makes sense.

On another note. It's looking like Aodh and FollowthePath will not be playing. Here's hoping that Followthepath just got busy and nothing bad happened to them. I decided to just remove Aodh in the manner that gave FollowthePath the most options should they decided to come back. If anyone has questions or concerns about how I handled that please let me know.

Thank you all for sticking around as long as you have. Here's hoping for more fun as we continue!

LadyAnnaLee

The Lesser Evils. (Play is live!)

What I am under standing from what @duskshine749 and @Zanavy are saying is that hopefully it gets better when we leave the introduction phase and actually start with the story. That's good to know. I think we are about 2 or three cycles out from The Detective leaving. So, then the characters will be forced to interact. Here's hoping that helps too.

As for posts.

@Dragonfly 9
@DawningAurora
@Pascal
@Zanavy

I am not feeling up to a Detective post tonight. However I do have a rough outline figured out. So, I will be posting tomorrow night. So you have til then to either let me know you aren't posting or to post.

Guys. I really want this to work. I am doing my best to make this work. If you feel something is off or could be done better please let me know. I don't know if you don't tell me.

Have a wonderful day slash night!

LadyAnnaLee

The Lesser Evils. (Play is live!)

Hello! Just a reminder. Posts are due tomorrow.

Though I do have to ask. Is there anything I can do to make the story more compelling or to make posting easier? I want us all to have fun. If we aren't having fun there is very little point. Let me know if you have any suggestions.

Lots of love!

LadyAnnaLee