Assault with a deadly fruit!

Jan held a plate in one hand and was patiently picking fruit off the serving platters near the chocolate fountain with the other. Only the best would serve his lofty purposes. Swiping one into the melted dark goodness, he deemed it not up to standards and ate it.

Once his plate was full of ammunition, Jan retrieved his wine glass and moved towards a table near the entrance, passing by the Tacharan table and giving Ellis a slight nod of his head and holding up the plate with a grin.

Seating himself behind the table, he set up his spoon catapult carefully checking the trajectory and looking for possible targets. He took careful aim and then made a successful launch.

Leaning forward onto the table, Jan covered the spoon with his crossed arms doing his best to look innocent.


((OOC: Open to anyone who would like to be pelted))

Nicholae 18 years ago
Had the name Ellis not struck to his very core, Nic would have felt slighted at the tone to which Addison had addressed him. That, and the way Addison moved closer to Ellis...and the fact that Ellis was his boss...only served to make Nic nauseous.

He nodded at Addison, but the loud rushing noise in his ears shut out all other sounds from reaching his brain. He saw Addision's lips moving, but nothing was registering. He looked to Jan furtively, and gave the same look to Ellis; however, with Ellis he skipped over her eyes, and went directly to her mouth.

FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK! The only words he could form in his mind. He was almost certain Ellis was the head of the newer clan...Tacharan...and that surely made Addison her familiar...and Nic now realized he'd committed an unpardonable sin.


"Nice to meet you both, and Addison...good to see you again. Bike? No...haven't found anyone who sells them yet...still looking...but hell, I didn't mean to interrupt...just came by to say hi, and tell you how hot you look in that outfit."

He had to get out of there...he had to gather his wits about him...he had to find his Evenhet brethren and let them know what a huge pile of shit he'd pushed himself into.

The only bit of information he had to save him from expecting his immediate death at Ellis' hands now, was the realization that Addison must not have told Ellis about Nic. And for that Nic felt almost religious.


"I'll let you all get back to your fruit toss, and see you around Addison."

And though it would have been nice to have taken the time to get to know Addison better, Nic was just too selfish. He valued retaining his own life, ever so much more so.

He turned and walked towards the entry doors, and out into the night, as if his feet had wings.


(Nic out)
Ellis Duban 18 years ago
'Interesting bird.' Ellis murmured. Now, Ellis was many things. Charming, elegant, psychotic...but an obvious trait, a rather painfully obvious one, was that she was territorial. Someone had been sniffing around her familiar. Someone she was not familiar with. Someone she suspected knew who she was and made haste when he realized it...and that someone would more than likely be a vampire.

A vampire that knows Addison, her familiar.

No, that would simply not do.


'Addison darling, did we say something wrong? Nicholae seemed to leave in a bit of a hurry.' Her voice was syrupy but commanding. Ellis was quite annoyed now, with this situation but more with her dress. She'd have to find Nicholae later and properly introduce herself.
Addison 18 years ago
Addison smiled at the compliment, pleased, but unsure why Nic was looking so...antsy now. "Thank you, but it wasn't my idea..." The kimono was surprisingly comfortable, however...except where the sash was prassing into his back against the chair. He scooted forward on the seat to fix that, hoping the bow wasn't completely smooshed.

And....then Nic was leaving. He looked...peculiar and nevous even. Nic was certainly in a hurry to get out of his company.


'Addison darling, did we say something wrong? Nicholae seemed to leave in a bit of a hurry.'


"Hnnn?" Addison realized he had been staring in the direction Nic had taken off in, a perplexed look on his face. "I'm not sure. I don't know him all that well...we met at the museum the other night. He seemed fine then...maybe he caught the cold I had...." The possibility of that was great. They had been in close contact, so perhaps Nic just took a little longer for the symptoms to show up. A long-shot, but it wsa better than the alternative that was flittering around in his head...that he was a social reject tonight.

The accountant turned and sniffed lightly, wondering if he had some particular offensive odor or something. 'Nope...just that light smelling cologne stuff.'
"I seem to be repelling people today..."
Danielle 18 years ago
Dani looked around for an available table to escape from the flying fruit, and in scanning noticed that Arin and Thaddeus had just walked in with a woman she wasn’t familiar with. They made an interesting trio, she thought; representing a spectrum of cultures and times and apparently arranged by height.

“Oooh, look who it is! Let’s go say hi!”

/ooc Dani out, Claire out with permission
Simon Huntington 18 years ago
Simon walked back into the convention hall and just missed getting plowed down by a man making haste out the door he came in. He gave a glance back at the man but he disappeared behind another crowd coming in.

Straightening his armor and running a frustated hand through his hair, he looked around for Ellis. She wasn't hard to find. He saw her, Nova, Jan and Ellis' familiar Addison sitting by the fruit arrangement. As he approached, he watched Ellis casually fling a strawberry into the crowd.


'Nice, we're throwing fruit now are we? Let me know when the monkey poop flies and I'll call for the car.' He laughed, albeit a forced one and grabbed a drink off a passing waiter's tray, downing it quickly and stopping him before he could go again. He grabbed another drink and shooed the waiter on.
Nova 18 years ago
Nova raised her eyebrows at Nic’s introduction before going back to getting the slightly squishy raspberry centered on the spoon. A motorbike eh? That was cool. She eyed up her target, judging the trajectory and gauging the amount of force it might take for the fruit to burst on contact, but the weirdness of the situation brought her attention back to the table. Ellis seemed a bit dangerous and Nic…huh, well Nic seemed to have gone all squirrelly on them. Addison seemed to find the behavior equally odd.

Maybe there was trouble brewing! Satisfied with the possibilities, she let the raspberry fly.


“Meh, it’s just crazy with all these people here tonight.” She tilted her head to one side. “You know, you don’t strike me as the Gilligan type. More of a Ginger.” Grinning, she continued. “What with the hair and all.”

She looked up when Simon waltzed by, downing his drink in a fashion that put her to shame.

"Hey, we're still a -little- civilized here."
Simon Huntington 18 years ago
'At ease, Cadet.' Simon grinned and drank his champagne. He looked at the empty glass and frowned. 'What is this swill? I need something stout.' Simon grabbed the shoulder of a waiter passing by and ordered something much heavier. The waiter gave him a snotty nod and left.

'So what did I miss?' While I was out, baring my soul to the only woman that I might come close to loving. Who happens to be my lover's familiar, for which we can both be killed for.

Simon closed his eyes and wished the waiter could come faster.
Jan 18 years ago
Jan waved as the introduction was made but noticed that Addison's friend seemed a bit distracted. Seeing the look on Ellis's face and being plenty familiar with it, he could totally understand the guy wanting to get out of there as fast as possible. It did make Jan wonder just how friendly this Nic guy got with Addison in order to light out of the room like his ass was on fire just after greeting them. Course he might not have known Ellis was so protective of her property but he wondered who in the vampire community didn't know that the leader of Tacharan was notoriously possessive.

He settled more comfortably in his chair and reached a hand out to his leader and placed it on her arm


"Anything you want help with just let me know."Â?

Jan loved Ellis's attitude; it made him feel like he belonged and like he was wanted. He was a part of Tacharan, they were his family and Ellis led them all. She had the right to be possessive and protective of any of them in his opinion and he'd not go against that for a second, in fact he'd help her.

His attention was turned back towards Addison when the redhead replied to his friend's departure. Remembering back to when Addison joined them made him realize they had all left shortly afterwards.


"Hey, no, it's nothing like that. We're just known for wandering around seeing where we can stir up trouble. I think some of us had behaved for about as long as we could stand it; no reflection on you, promise."Â?

Smiling at Addison, he then glanced over at Nova and gave her a thumbs up for the flying raspberry. He did make a face at Simon's comment and thought to toss a strawberry at him but something about his father's expression suggested now would not be a good time to harass the man.

"Yes, this is us being quiet and demure like you asked. You will note there has been no bloodshed yet, right?"Â?

He saw the godzilla costumed person, that Nova mentioned earlier, at the bar.

"I'm guessing the giant lizard is one of ours?"Â?

((OOC: headed out again, will be gone until later Ellis feel free to smack him if you like, wanted to reply before leaving so I wasn't holding anyone up.))
Ellis Duban 18 years ago
“Anything you want help with just let me know.”

Ellis looked at Jan, Simon's ever so mischevious child. Her smile widened as she looked at him and considered his offer. Just how old was Jan, she wondered. About 500 or so years? Well, she would've preferred middle aged at least, but she was willing to build up to a finally. I bet he'd look smashing on the beast, steel trappings and all.

She grinned and nudged him. 'I might take you up on the offer, darling.' She reached for a drink off of a passing waiter and snapped up a martini. She picked the olive out and used her white teeth to snap it off the stick. Ellis then looked over at Nova. Bah, too young. She chewed her olive slowly, thinking her deep, evil thoughts.
Cyrus 18 years ago
With his familiar on his right arm as he walked to a now empty table, Cyrus was quite surprized to see a raspberry flung at the people in front of him. Carefully he stepped around the juicy mass that had landed on the floor. Keeping his senses sharp in the direction it had come from as they made their way from the bar to a table.

As a large strawberry zoomed at him, Cyrus shifted his spear and gently directed the projectile to land upon one of its spikes at the base of the spear head. With no fruit mess upon him or Suki, he turned toward the offending table.

With a pointed look at the fruit and them then, he made an abreviated bow of his head before continuing onto their destination. Interesting idea, but Cyrus prefered to either pounce or let his pray go by unaware of his presence.


((Cyrus Out, just wanted some delivered fruit.))
Addison 18 years ago
Oh and there were more stopping by. Addison repeated a name or two in his head just to make sure he got them all straoght. It didn't look professional if you forgot the name of a person in your "company." Simon happened along and Addison had to wonder...could vampires get drunk? If so, would it take a lot more, cause the way Simon knocked that one back, made the red head think that he was out for a purpose...Not that there was any thing wrong with that...perhaps Ellis' companion didn't like social settings. A smile and a "hello" in his direction and Addison turned back to Jan.

'Cute kid,' he thought, then immediately shook his head. This "kid" was probably older than his own parents.
"Thanks...one has to wonder when people make haste to leave when you arrive." He winked at Jan, feeling much better about the whole thing. So, he was now assured he wasn't making those around him horribly disgusted. That was something in his favor. But the whole "I can help you out" thing to Ellis made him confused.

Turning back, he did some people watching, grabbing another berry and popping it in his mouth.
"What about that one? The one with the metal head gear. Think you could get a berry to stick on the little protrusions on his helmut?" That would be something to see.
Nova 18 years ago
Grinning at Simon, she considered just how to answer his question while wondering why, if he had wanted a drink so badly, he hadn’t just asked her to get him one when she went to the bar. And where had he been, anyway? Shrugging, she dismissed her natural inquisitiveness and knocked back a little more of her own drink.

“Not a lot, just chilling.”

While she had no idea who was under the Godzilla costume, she was more than happy to claim him.

“I hope so; be pretty weird to find a fossil or a tree hugger under there.”

It seemed Addison didn’t take kindly to the Ginger remark, though Nova couldn’t understand why; who wanted to be Gilligan anyway, after all? Was it the ‘chick’s name’ thing? Nova dismissed that theory…the guy was wearing a dress, after all.

Then again…maybe he just hadn’t heard her. It wasn’t like her to dwell on whether or not she had offended someone for long and usually the thought didn’t bother her all that much even if she did bug someone a little. Still, she felt it was probably safe to assume Addison’s concerns over repelling people didn’t apply to her, and, draining her drink, stood up.


“Gonna go say hi to Alec and Ginnie; catch you guys later.”

/ooc out
Amberelle DeEspionne 18 years ago
Following Cyrus a bit slowly, Amberelle was lost in thought. ''There is no point in dwelling on things when you're at a party, so start having fun!" she told herself firmly. Spying a tray of champagne headed her way she stopped to down the rest of her wine then swapped it for a glass of bubbly from the passing waiter.

Taking a sip, she started to look around to see which direction Cyrus had disappeared in when suddenly she felt something cool and wet brush her chest. Her eyebrows shot up as she looked down to see a strawberry nestled in the middle of her bosom against the dress. Dumbfounded at the sheer audacity, the blonde looked up with a faintly shocked look and tried to find the source of the errant fruit.


(( OOC lololol... anyone can claim it as their shot if they like ))
Addison 18 years ago
"I hope so; be pretty weird to find a fossil or a tree hugger under there."Â?


Addison looked away from the remains of his fruit to look over to where the reptilian person was standing. A slow blink and smile as he suddently felt like he was dressed more normally....more normally than a godzilla suit. But that person had to have a sense of humor. Godzilla looked to be currently facing the bar. A shame, cause Addison was now curious.

As the one with the cool name wandered off, the red head looked back over the crowd then back at the berries. He re-arranged so that there wasn't a break in the circles before taking one that looked to the odd one out. He'd never ever thrown food before, his parents finding the habit below them and it was greatly discouraged. But when in rome... Addison loaded the berry on to his spoon...or the catapult, as he preferred to think of it. Looking around, he spied a blonde and took aim... well, if taking aim was to squeeze one eye shut and let fly in her general direction.

Suddenly embarressed of his action, Addison dropped his spoon with a clatter to his empty bread plate and looked the other way, flushing guiltily.
"Did I hit anyone?" he asked Ellis, not daring to look.

(OOC: Claimed)
Amberelle DeEspionne 18 years ago
Her eyes were drawn towards the loud clatter of silverware on china she'd just heard. Glaring, she frowned at a table not too far away that looked most likely to be the source. Carefully shifting her champagne flute to the hand with her mask, her other gloved hand came up and with just the tips of two fingers she gingerly plucked the strawberry up by one of its leaves. With her face carefully neutral, she walked up and glanced around the table.

Did umm one of you here loose this?
Jan 18 years ago
Jan looked at the Asian man with the spear and smiled innocently, thinking that was a nice catch so he would be generous and not launch another.

Listening to Addison's suggestion and looking at the head gear in question, he said.


"Oh I have no doubt I could manage it."

Jan launched another strawberry aimed towards the armored fellow with the spiked helm and then used his telekinesis to guide it into place. The guy didn't even seem to notice, so much the better. Sitting back with a satisfied smirk, he turned to the redhead.

"Good suggestion, we'll make a trouble maker out of you yet."

As Jan started setting up for the next launch, Nova stood up and proclaimed she was going to be sociable again. Again? She needed to get out more if she was going to be this chatty.

"Well tell them "hi" for me."

He personally thought Alec should come join them in fruit tossing; it was far more entertaining than simple conversation.

Seeing Addison with a berry on his spoon, Jan held off his out launch to watch. He grinned as the accountant barely took note of where it went and then turned hurried away from the scene looking about as guilty as you could get and blushing a nice red to match his hair.

'Hell, Ellis picked a fun one this time.' he thought as he listened to Addison's question.

He raised an eyebrow at where it landed and then turned to Ellis.


"You owe Addison ten bucks for hitting an Anantya...and nice shot by the way, cleavage is a daring move. "

Jan doubted it was intended but the result was amusing. He smiled up at Amberelle as she walked over.

"Nope, I still have mine. See?"

Jan pointed down at his spoon with the strawberry still in it.

"So uhm... enjoying the ball?" He winked at her and then made a quick introduction.

"Ellis, Addison and Simon, this is Amberelle. Care to join us? You know this is more fun than actually behaving."
Winter 18 years ago
Godzilla came stomping over from the bar to the assembeled group, Daquri in hand, crazy straw disappearing into his mouth..

he stopped to look at each person there, paused then pointed at Ellis's cleveage and Roared "GODZILLA LIKE! YUMMY BOOBIES!!!"
Ellis Duban 18 years ago
Ellis was about to comment on Ambrelle's choice for clevage decoration when the Godzilla party goer stomped over. With a roar and a declaration of his preference for her breasts, Ellis smiled. 'That must be Winter underneath all that glorious lizard skin. Darlin', very cute ensemble.' She shrugged her shoulders, giving him more clevage to roar about and gave him a wink.
Winter 18 years ago
Under the head piece of the suit winter smiled.
'good ol' El Diablo, never surprised' he thought
He gave Ellis a deep formal bow, which in that suit was quite a feat.
he stood and then began to do a little soft shoe dance.
Amberelle DeEspionne 18 years ago
After a quick glance over the table's occupants Amberelle had focused in on the red faced and embarassed looking redhead. She was about to offer him his fruit back with a rather scathing remark when she heard a familiar voice. Her brows furrowed slightly and she turned to see where Jan was.

It took her a couple seconds to recognize him. The blonde had to bite her lip hard to keep from bursting into laughter at the sight of Jan in his period finery. Her shoulders shook from the effort but she managed to keep a straight face until... "You have to be joking.. Godzilla?" Pressing the back of the hand holding the strawberry to her mouth she snickered and snorted softly, shaking her head.

Umm.. I guess I am, it's pretty boring so far but I haven't been here long. And I guess I could be spared a few minutes from the cousins waiting for me.. She felt a twinge of guilt at not joining them right away. After all she was going to show Darius around. "But I can still do that, no reason not to spend time with a friend first.."

Ignoring the banter between the beautiful brunette sitting with Jan and the walking lizard, she slid around and took a seat next to her Tacharan friend. She smiled and leaned over to give Jan a kiss on the cheek.