>>84850
And leave Squires alone? That doesn't seem quite right. I mean she did just save our life.

>>84848
"You know, some of us do have jobs. I can't skip out without someone on duty, and Squires is out."

Brom 2009/12/02(Wed)13:21 No. 84855 ID: f98e0b
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>>84853
>>84851
"That doesn't mean I'm not going to do it, Leah. Because it's my job, okay? I can't skip out without someone on duty, and Squires is out."

"The office can wait, Oren. When was the last time someone woke you up for something there anyway?"

"This morning, Leah. Look. I don't like it and you don't like it, but there it is. The town needs me here."

"Bullshit, Oren. The office don't need you. The town don't need you. And I don't need you either, as a matter of fact. So if you aren't with me tonight, you can kiss the one thing you have going right in your life goodbye."
She don't mean it, Oren. She says things without thinking. Breathe, Oren.

>>84855
Actually....

Other than the sex, what do you like about her?

You don't seem to get along well, and you have a job she doesn't seem to be able to handle you having.

Plus, you CAN'T leave, Squires needs you. She saved your life and has been your partner all this time, and there is no way you will not be there for her.

Now put your problems aside, and go check in on Squires. Helping others is a great way to calm the nerves.

She has a funny idea of what "right" means.

>>84855

Say something snappy, like 'sorry sweetcakes', as you hang up the phone in a hard-boiled manner.

Just tell her the truth.
Ending a job with two corpses and having no one to arrest does not makes you in the mood for champagne.

Thats the truth, right?

If she cant get that trough her head, sigh and hang.

>>84860
This.

Maybe with a little passive aggression thrown in for good measure, since she's being so unpleasant.

>>84855
Just say "'bye" and hang up. It's not like you didn't know this would happen.

>>84855
She wants you all to herself, but she doesn't care about your wants.
Does she really care about you? She, who threatens to leave you at the drop of a hat?

You're too good for her, Oren. She doesn't deserve you.

Brom 2009/12/02(Wed)13:47 No. 84872 ID: f98e0b
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>>84857
It was different when they met. Oren hadn't really had much of a feminine figure in his life except Squires, who is his best friend after all. She'd been friendly and witty and the sex, well, Oren hadn't actually ever done it before so he's not sure how good it was. It was fun, though.

>>84860
>>84858

"Right? You got a funny idea as to what's right, hon. Not getting that two mutilated bodies and no culprit to interview doesn't make me feel like dancing over to your place to get smashed ain't right, 'darlin'."

"Is that the way you're going to be, Loper?"

>>84859
>>84866
Oren hangs up.
He doesn't need this shit from her tonight. He doesn't need it. He can ignore the longing for skin on his and for breath in his ear and the feel of...

Brom 2009/12/02(Wed)13:47 No. 84873 ID: f98e0b
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god fucking dammit.

>>84873
Two people have died, horribly, in front of you, and she expects you to cheerily drink, abandon your duties, and get laid later the same day.
Good god, how did you end up with this woman in the first place?
Cut off contact with her, be prepared for pressure from her end.

>84873
Time to walk down the 70 Steps of Light Slumber and have a talk with Nasht and Kaman-Tha?

>>84855

I don't think this girl's done much of anything for you, boss. I might think she'd called with the intention of maybe making you feel better with this champagne and togetherness, but so far your description of her doesn't make me too hopeful, and her brushing off the situation, and the veiled attacks on you, seem to support that notion. She doesn't seem the type whose attitude can be improved, either.

Your call, chief, but I'd take the opportunity she's giving to break it off, even if she doesn't realize she's giving it. With her bein' your first, too... well, let's say it's unlikely that you've got the best you can get.

... None of this will really help make you feel better, I admit, but with this kinda situation I don't think there's much we can offer in that regard, anyway. Sorry.

>>84873
Go check on Squires. Make sure she's alright.

>>84882
Total. Put a rock on the matter and check her. Shes your best friend; bros before hoes. Even if your bro is a she.

Brom 2009/12/02(Wed)14:13 No. 84885 ID: f98e0b
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>>84878
>>84877
Oren feels a little better about the situation after a bit. Who does that woman think she is, anyway? He should check on Squires. See if she's sleeping soundly. Her stereo's on, which is usually a sign that she's trying to get to bed. He's about to get up when he hears her voice from the other room.
"Young love. Beautiful, yes?"

"Hey, Squires. You alright?"

"Fine. What about you, Oren? That sounded a bit more pissed than usual."

"Well, I just blew off a chance to get drunk and laid to mope around because I got offended by how she treated me and my job."

Okay, dont say THAT, but thats the line of thought I am thinking of.

Brom 2009/12/02(Wed)14:30 No. 84890 ID: f98e0b
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>>84886
"Just blew it with Leah."
"Again?"
"Again."
"You two are going to break some kind of record, you know."
"I think this is it, Nessie. I'm quitting cold turkey. You should have heard what she said about our jobs."
"Lemme guess." she says. "Something about how a)it's meaningless and b) it's keeping you from licking her feet full time?"
"Uncanny."
"I speak Turbo-Bitch. Hey, Oren. Remember that time she barged in here and I'd left my lacy underthings on the desk?"
"She never let me forget it, Nessie."
"Heh, well..." she walks into the doorway.

Brom 2009/12/02(Wed)14:34 No. 84892 ID: f98e0b
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"Did you miss them?"

>>84892

"Could be"

I did o.o

>>84892
-erm-

>>84892
Goggle.

Oh ho ho ho.

I'd suggest going for it, Oren. Hell, it's usually better when it's a friend.

>>84892
Do your best impression of unicodestare.jpg

Brom 2009/12/02(Wed)14:54 No. 84905 ID: f98e0b
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>>84896
Affirmative.

>>84893
"Could be I did," says Oren. "Um. Squires? Is this going where I think it is going to go? Don't you think it's a little inopportune?"
Oren why are you saying this god fuck

"Oren Loper, today I took a trip to a haunted fucking mansion where I saw a couple of corpses, got straddled by a clay monkey thing with tiger claws, and shielded a magic cyclops in the face. I am relieved to be fucking alive. I want to tell the world. I want the mage in his fucking grave to know." She steps forward. "And I want to do it so loud he just might."

Oren recongizes the song playing on the stereo. Nymph's Jink by The Finesse.
I want you next to me, you can have it for free
who gives a fuck what anyone thinks
It's not love, it's lust, no, it's both at once
I believe that I have nymph's jinx
He clears his throat. "So I can forget about writing that there press release?"

"Just for tonight, the job, our problems, the whole world can go screw itself," she says. "And you, Sheriff, can go get the condoms and screw the deputy."

>>84905
You know what must be done. Godspeed.

>>84905
She makes a convincing argument.

So, we blew off getting laid.. to get laid?
SCORE!

In before awkward morning.

Brom 2009/12/02(Wed)15:08 No. 84913 ID: f98e0b
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((author's note: click the gif if you're okay with Viddersex))

And they're in Squires' bed and she's unhooking her bra and she's climbing on top of him.

Oren wonders if it will be better than with Leah. It is. Nessie is soft and tight and energetic and she does this thing with her hips that... wow.

About five minutes in, she stops for a second, pulls back. "Hey," she says. "When you sent me in through that window first. Was that to stare at my ass?"
"It was the tactical thing to do," he says. "And you kissed me, remember?"

"Yeah," she says, and grins. "I guess I did." She's laughing and Oren's laughing too. Because they're alive and they're together.

Brom 2009/12/02(Wed)15:09 No. 84914 ID: f98e0b
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And for tonight, that's enough.

>>84913

Told you it'd be better.

>>84913
It's always in the hips, innit ehh?
I imagine the undertaker will have a lot to say.

Undertaker 2009/12/02(Wed)15:32 No. 84921 ID: f98e0b
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>>84918
Nope. I'm outta there.

I've been in enough wet dreams to know what it means when they whip out the lingerie. And I imagine a psychic voyeur isn't exactly something Mr. Loper would appreciate.

Say, I imagine this would be a comfy chair if I could feel it.

>>84921
your eyes have really dimmed since we first saw you.

You tired or something?

>>84921
So Undertaker, once you got let in to the material world, you can move as you please?

That was not my understanding of how the barriers between realms worked, I thought you were bound to a host....

Additionally, what CAN you do? You clearly did something with Squires, care to explain what it was?

Was listening to some music and this seemed particularly appropriate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8RgMU9YYvA

Undertaker 2009/12/02(Wed)15:43 No. 84925 ID: f98e0b
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>>84923
Creatures outside their direct plains can't act directly on them without a host. Ever heard of ghosts, possessions, that sort of thing? There's your explanation. Ghosts are just the Spirit world's form of whisps. I'm of Dream, also a whisp on this plane of existence, which explains how dim my eyes appear to be. Also the tail. I do have the power to move around and enter some minds, mostly ones that are willing or helpless. Hence entering Nessie Squires, who was open at the time due to the mage's spell. I'm not bound to one, but finding another willing creature is difficult and I like to think I'm above invasive possession (one must have standards, after all).

Am I being too wordy again?

>>84921

Say, Undertaker, can you tell us... what are we?

>>84925
Hardly.

Undertaker 2009/12/02(Wed)15:51 No. 84930 ID: f98e0b
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>>84927
I couldn't say. If you're of the dream realm, I've never seen you before. I imagine you are the little voices everyone has that speak to them occasionally and guide them.

Judging from the sighs, moans, and crying out of names going on in the next room, as well as from how all of Oren's innards are still in, I feel as if you are doing your jobs fairly well.

>>84930
Hm.

Is there a way to awaken you, Oren or Squires to other abilities? Teaching them dream magic, something like that?

Earlier, you said that each of the four realms had an associated magical discipline. How do they work?

Undertaker 2009/12/02(Wed)16:27 No. 84942 ID: f98e0b
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A quick primer on magic, then?
First off: Magic is something you're born with. And most people know if they're mages because when they're born they usually come out with a flash of bright light, some sort of omen, that sort of thing. Weird but there it is. If Oren could command a facet of existence with a thought he would have found out by now. Anyone on any plane can be a mage of any realm. The power is amplified if you're in that particular realm.

Dream's magic is illusion. The power over minds and the ability to cause lucid dreams, that sort of thing.

Material has evocation. Power over the elements. Starting fires and controlling the winds.

Magic has enchantment, which deals in pure energy and force. They can also infuse normal items with arcane power. There's a big business for magic weapons.

Spirit is thaumaturgy. The ability to call upon spirits, deities, that sort of thing. Mostly they have to be willing to help out, but there are thaumaturgists who can force aid. Necromancers, for example.

Once you have one kind of magic down, it is possible to learn others but it's hard. That mage Oren fought used illusion AND thaumaturgy AND evocation. I've never really heard of anyone being able to do that. If he had been a warmage Oren would have been torn apart.

Something else to understand: No creature is completely one plane. Oren, Squires, and anyone else on the Materium, for example, are mostly material, but have a link to the spirit and dream planes (and magic, in some cases). I have a link to the material and magic planes. And so on.

And now, I think, I'll turn in for the night, if it's all the same to you. Dream creatures do sleep, of course. We just visit the realm of Magic instead of the realm of Dream.

Before I go... am I really a dork?

>>84942
Yes.

But we´ve seen dorkier.
His name is Oren Loper. He led a dorkish life, had a dorkish girlfriend...

>>84942

Yes, but that isn't a bad thing.

Also, I'd probably not let Oren know you were peeking in on him.

>>84942

Not really.

Though I suppose that partially depends on what definition of dork you're using. You seem to be using it in the sense of geeky or nerdy, knowing a lot of stuff. But hey, these are things that are useful to know, and you don't seem to have much else to do except learn stuff.

Undertaker 2009/12/02(Wed)16:40 No. 84952 ID: f98e0b
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Thank you, fellas.
And good night.

"Hey (ahn) Oren, do me a favor?"
"Sure, Nessie. What?"
"Call me (ooh) Deppity?"
"Really?"
"Come ooon."
"Fine, deppity (ah) Squires."
"Thanks. That's sexy. Could you (mmn) neigh like a horse?"
"What?"
"It's a joke, Oren."