Life in Stasis

Job, Nevada (Supernatural Western/Mystery)

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Where on earth did you come upon the name Marion, if you don't mind me asking?

@Noxious

It's the name of one of my older coworkers. I thought it was charmingly old fashioned.

Job, Nevada (Supernatural Western/Mystery)

Polite hello from Life in Stasis.

Job, Nevada (Supernatural Western/Mystery)

Miss Marion Golightly

Marion Golightly

Appearance:
Ms. Golightly is best described as taut, prim, and well groomed. In the city she preferred stark whites and blacks, but for the duration of her trek out west, has selected a spectrum of dusty to auburn shades that won’t soon give away smudges of dirt and sand that are likely to accumulate in the open American country.

All the same, she does not deprive herself of elegance and refinery, favoring opal earrings and a porcelain, limoge pendant. Though she keeps her long, brunette hair tightly bound, she still favors feathered hats to complement her feminine appeal.

Age:
27

Occupation:
Appraiser employed by the Philadelphia First Bank & Trust

Personality
A calculated woman, and not easily won over by charms, professional or otherwise, Marion Golightly earned a reputation in Philadelphia as extraordinarily shrewd. When valuing property soon to be purchased by the bank, her appraisals were nearly universally dreaded, except by the members of the Philadelphia Trust, who were always reluctant to part with good money.

While not outwardly unfriendly, she considers her time valuable and rarely suffers fools—unless she’s on their payroll. There is no mystery among her family as to why at 27, Ms. Golightly remains yet unmarried. Though a handful of men have tried, she is as ruthless with suitors is she is on pricing land.

Getting on with Ms. Golightly requires only honesty, even when it’s blunt, but in the city among the upper class, that can be rather difficult to find.

History
Ms. Golightly has traveled to Job, Nevada with her elder brother, who also works for the Philadelphia Bank as an appraiser. The Trust is in fact owned by their father, an ailing but reputable man back in the city. Although Marion is fiercely defensive over her family’s reputation, her brother William seems to have little care for it, fond of women, drink, and gambling. Marion has spent a significant amount of her adult and professional life cleaning up after her brother. In spite of his failings, he does at least succeed in making the Golightlys an approachable bunch.

When the Philadelphia Bank & Trust was approached by a penniless miner hoping to sell his plot of land, in which he had invested his life savings hoping to strike it rich, William Golightly was selected to travel out to Job, Nevada to measure the worth of the miner’s land and determine what to pay for it, if the Trust should buy it at all. Marion was frustrated by this choice, knowing she was passed over because it was doubtful that the West would suit her delicate, womanly sensibilities. After some deliberation, it was reluctantly decided that Marion would accompany her brother.

And good thing too. The bank would only stand to lose money if they trusted William to do his job competently.

Unbeknown to her brother, her father, and anyone else, Ms. Golightly has a second reason for wanting to travel as far west as Job. As children, Marion and William’s mother was brutally attacked and killed by their own family hound, which was subsequently shot and put down. The funeral was arranged, Mrs. Golightly was buried, and the family drearily moved on. It was a terrible, everyday tragedy; problem was it wasn't true. Marion witnessed the slaying herself, and knew who was to blame. The killer was a wolf-man.

It sounded like the bizarre imaginings of a traumatized young girl, but even as she pretended to have given up on this childish delusion, she has always privately sworn this to be true.

The family gardener, Rufus, was a lowborn but friendly individual who tended the Golightly courtyard when the children were young. As their father was often away on business, a lonely Mrs. Golightly and Rufus became uncommonly close. Although he never worked during the weeks of a full moon, she did manage to convince him to stay overlong to keep her company during a troubling time in her marriage.

William had already gone to bed, but a six year old Marion stayed up late spying on Mrs. Golightly, already possessing a bitter understanding for what her mother was perpetrating. Planning on informing her father of Rufus’ transgressions, she instead watched the man transform before her eyes and maul her mother to death.

Marion never saw Rufus again after that. All she had were the memories of what happened, burned forever into her mind. Lately, stories of the West, and Job in particular, were riddled with hazy implications of the impossible, of supernatural happenings. Suddenly saddled with an opportunity to discover the veracity of these stories for herself, Marion is only too eager to set out and prove her memories—if only to herself.

Having always been afraid of facing the same fate as her mother, Marion knows her way around a revolver. She has her own, along with a hunting rifle and her father’s six shooter.

Since arriving in Job, Marion and William Golightly have rented separate, but adjoined rooms at a local saloon she has deemed... rustic.

Personal card:
Hands:
Mysteries: TBD

The Absent King

Thank you guys. And thanks Lyaer for speaking on my behalf. I'm sorry I wasn't more forthcoming, perhaps I should have been. My RL is going through a bit of an upheaval and I need some time to sort things out.

I don't want to get into it, but just so it doesn't seem like I'm flaking out and making up excuses like some RPers do, I'll offer a paltry explanation. To make a long story short, I was going to get married this summer. Now I'm not.

I really would like to pick this up again, and since half of this RP is composed of my personal friends who I can beckon back at nearly any time, I see that as being very likely. I'll tag/PM you guys when I'm back. Until then, I appreciate you being faithful to the RP and patient with me.

The Absent King

I'm going to go ahead and post soon. Can't wait on @Errant Son any longer.

The Absent King

I've gotten kind of absorbed in my upcoming birthday tomorrow so I'll likely be able to post after that, if that's alright.

@Errant Son

No rush, as long as everyone's still faithful to the RP. I've spent my three day weekend raging at dark souls.

The Abyss Watchers are BS.

The Absent King

I'd like to post as soon as @Fireball XL5 and @Errant Son have had a chance to.

The Absent King

@Life in Stasis How is Dark Souls III? How does it compare to their last game? I haven't had hardly any time to play video games. Working freelance sucks.

@Thortimer

I didn't play Dark Souls II. It just seemed too samey and "if you liked our last game, here's the same game with slightly better controls but WAY HARDER AND TROLLIER and with no new ideas whatsoever" (seriously I watched some of the latest update gameplay, and the white "ghosts" you see wandering around/fighting air may in fact be enemies, not other players. Also you can't target them. It just seems cheap). But compared to the first Dark Souls it seems initially easier and with slightly better controls, as long as you're already familiar with some of the mechanics (like retrieving your souls after death.

Gets hard quick though.

So far, very good in my opinion. Story is a bit blah (I really liked it in the first game, even thought it would actually make a wonderful grim and melancholy RP), but as usual it takes a backseat to the gameplay. The first Dark Souls had the best story and voice acting.

This early on too there's bloodstains everywhere so I can amuse myself with everyone's clumsy deaths.

Suicide Ledge

The Absent King

I'm posting later today, that should help us out.

@ThatCharacter

Good to know. Take your time. Dark Souls III released this week so I am utilizing my time off from writing (this is presently my only RP).

Also, @JulienJaden, forgot to tag you my reply to your post (it's on the previous page).

The Absent King

@Culluket At least tell me he is allowed to rest before he does that.

@Errant Son

For the sake of flow, unfortunately not. However he was allowed to sit for awhile and eat/drink, so there's that. And like Captain Serona, he may have slept on the horse (with Marcus taking over under Alonso and Kolbe's supervision).