LupusIntus

Umbra Rose Condos

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Yeah, I'm waiting on Theria (and I'm also waiting on uhhhh, was it @LupusIntus who said they were going to play the doctor? I'm also waiting on the doctor).

@Lemons

Also, no need for me to 'play' them fully (I really dont need to, lol). Happy to introduce them, get them in your scene, but then you're more welcome to roll with them as the NPC they are.

Gonna make an edit to my post considering Alphonse (our very very good bug) was in another scene to get things rolling for you again!

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Yeah, I'm waiting on Theria (and I'm also waiting on uhhhh, was it @LupusIntus who said they were going to play the doctor? I'm also waiting on the doctor).

@Lemons

Oh lawd, i was side-tracked. Uhhhhhhhhhhhh UHHHHHHHH uhhhhhhhh ok ok ok i can fix this.

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Do cosmic entities created as workers have souls? It's truly one of the philosophical questions of all time. I would say no, purely because the Things From Beyond aren't exactly...well, let's just leave it as "they don't seem to meet all the criteria". That being said, they were intelligent and that was the Elder Things downfall because they became so intelligent that they revolted and said "nah fuck you". Outside of that, they tend to just do whatever they want.

@Massasauga

They're just lil blobby guys building cities under the oceans.
No souls required to have a good time.

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Oh. So they're just natural creatures. Well , as natural as a servitor species can be. Disturbing. Do we know if shoggoths have souls? Trying to determine what the presence of one would feel like, to Yumeiko.

Somehow, I get feeling that being the enemy of Cthulhu makes no difference to us humans.

@CitrusArms

Depends on your philosphy, I guess. They were manufactured by the Old Ones as mindless slaves and servants but somehow developed enough sentience to rebel over millenia. Nothing to indicate they have a soul more than a complex AI shuffing off its shackles?

But hey, this is fiction bay-bee! Follow your heart, lol

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Maxwell Erickson

_{Location: Umbra Rose Condos - Courtyard
Time of Day: Early Morning
Relevant Cast:@BunniesofDoom}

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As Paw-ris scaled the massive wall with ease, perching herself like some kind of hairy gargoyle, Max couldn't stop himself from jumping to his feet with a scream caught in his throat. He had to remind himself that Thelia had been very thorough in explaining the illusionary wards that protected Umbra Rose, one of the condos many defensive measures, and that no one even a hundred yards away on the sidewalk would see anything but a non-descript buildings with some sign or another they wouldn't be able to remember in 5 minutes. Still, seeing the massive werewolf there in plain view (from his perspective) was nearly enough to give him a conniption before he busied himself by walking round and round in a tight circle while doing his breathing exercises.

His anxiety was not lessened when Wolf-ris leapt back down with the offer to 'change him' and had his mouth been full of any sort of beverage he would surely have performed the most magnificent of spit-takes. "I-I-I- Well it's- We wouldn't want- That's not-" Max stuttered profusely, his forehead dappled in a cold sweat. The large man instinctively retreated as Howl-ris bound forward excitedly until the back of his knees colided with the bench and he sat down hard once again. She dropped down in front of him, her head still neary level with his. "I... think it's a very kind offer." He swallowed, his voice shooting up a octive or four. "But, I like how I am... right now... as a human." With a great amount of willpower he stirred up the most disarming smile he could muster. "That doesn't mean I couldn't visit the tranquility room during the next full moon..." Max suddenly had to wonder if Ms. Thelia would allow him to install one of those plate-glass security cells in the tranquility room. Maybe a really sturdy shark cage...

Just then the muffled vocals of Chappell Roan's 'Good Luck, Babe!' filled the air between them and Max's hand flew to his pocket until he dug out his phone and silenced the alarm. His shift was officially going to start in 5 minutes. My shift... "Ahh! My shift!" Max suddenly shot to his feet again, quickly scrolling down his contacts list until he found the one he wanted. "O-one moment, Iris!" He pressed the phone to his ear and waited for a single ring before a light whimsical voice picked up on the other end.

"Max! How's my favorite little primate doing this morning?" Max heard the clatter of several metalic objects followed by a frantic cacophony of bird squawks, barks, and growls that had him pulling the phone a few inches from his ear. "No, no! The forceps go in the third drawer from the left. Yes, I know they should be resterilized. Please set them beside the basin there. MARGO! Stop harrassing Dominic! This is a place of work! I don't CARE about 'the natural order of predator and prey' when it's in my clinic!"

"Uh... Doctor Duscenia?" Max said into the phone, wincing again at another series of rattled crashes.

"Oh yes, sorry dear. Now what was it you needed?"

The images of Velvet's arm sprang back into his mind and he couldn't help but wince. "Ms. Coventry needs to see you right away in 205 of building 1. There was an... incident with another resident." Max flashed Iris a supportive smile. "Ms. Thelia asked that you give her an examination."

Duscenia laughed, the sound like a chorus of bells. "Our dear resident vampire? I suspect she'll be well on the mend by the time I arrive but I'll get my kit and pay her a visit. MARGO! WHAT DID I JUST SAY-!?"

The phone call ended abruptly with another explosion of animal calls and a very annoying roar that Max suspected belonged to a rather ornery Bengel Tiger that typically worked the clinic's check-in "Sorry." He said, pocketing the phone and turning back to Iris. "I should probably get to the front desk..."

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And I keep making extra toons as well. So far I've made a scylla CS and a )heavyweight) centaur, but I've got so many ideas for others too. Like a genie/djinn, banshee, leanan sidhe(Sp?), yeti, arachne, jaguarman, cait sith and a few additional ones...

@Xaltwind

I have a centuries old, eternally youthful alchemist who accidentally drank the philosopher’s stone and now has a ‘Midas Touch’ thing going on (but only for metal). He has 3 sentient homunculi that look like derpy pugs.

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Wow, that's quite the coincidence. If this is a concept you've had for quite a while, I hope my own version doesn't end up falling flat in comparison. My concept of the Shoggoth is one that's very close to (and in fact, a piece of) the Shoggoth in At the Mountains of Madness. If Khalid finds out he's not the only one utilizing Shoggoths around, it would be interesting. Maybe your character is what Khalid claims to be, and is highly averse to actually becoming.

@Lugubrious

Well they were an artificial race of things at one point so there could be a few of the little buggers blobbing around.

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Maxwell Erickson

_{Location:Umbra Rose Condos: Courtyard
Time of Day: Early Morning
Relevant Cast:@BunniesofDoom}

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Max winced slightly as the massive wolf-creature spoke in a voice not disimilar from Iris', though the muzzle and teeth added a low, bestial tone that always made the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. A year ago he would have laughed and called anyone crazy if they'd told him about about the residents he now served, but something deep in the human psyche was still in touch with such ancient monsters, curses, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night. It was a constant reminder that around these beings he was, on the most primal level, nothing but prey and it had been the most difficult feeling to overcome in his first months as the front desk worker. Watching her frolick like some puppy at the park, Max knew that his terror had long since morphed into a more subtle discomfort as he came to appreciate the residents of Umbra Rose as more than just 'monsters'.

“You should try this Max! It's so cool and refreshing!”

"You... go ahead, Thelia wouldn't approve of me getting my uniform all covered in grass stains." His deep voice chuckled as he sat heavily on a bench beside the concrete path that ringed the large manicured space. Dark brown eyes followed the werewolf's gaze up to the cloud-speckled sky, the tiny trail of a distant jet plane carving a line through the blue. When had my life come to this...? Max surprised himself by the particular lack of moroseness in that thought as he considered just how not-to-plan his life had gone, though life rarely did respect such narrow human expectations. Still though...

After a moment, the joyfulness fell from her face and she sighed quietly as she peered over at Max. “I didn't mean to hurt Velvet that bad. I got caught up in the moment.” She paused a moment to look back up at the sky again, staring at the clouds before continuing. “Iris is gonna lock us up now, huh?”

He blinked and looked over at the wolf but when he opened his mouth a reply didn't form. Leaning forward, his mind ticked over the events before he let out a long sigh. "I'm sorry... It was my fault, really." Max said, shaking his head to rid it of the image of Velvet's mangled arm and wolf-Iris' blood-stained teeth. "Iris mentioned you were a bit low on meet and I completely forgot the full moon was before delivery day. I- I should have put an order in earlier..." Forcing a small, apologetic smile, he couldn't quite meet the werewolf's gaze for long. "I'm sure... I'm sure she'll understand that things can get a bit... muddled, when we're hungry. Happens to the best of us, really." He did not think it needed to be mentioned that nearly ripping someone's arm off wasn't typically the human response to 'hangry'.

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Not yet. But we need to get her one lol

@BunniesOfDoom

Ok, haha. Ill have a post up shortly!