Character Meet and Greet~~ At Night

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I. Main Street Usa!

It's twilight, edging to evening, and yet the streets are still alive with citizens and Apprentices (that means you!) alike. Take the time to admire the lights, pop in and out of the cafes or just relax in the garden.

Weapon shops and magic shops are open late into the evening this time of year, so feel free to enjoy yourself before you equip yourself for the life head.


II. Apprentice Training 101- Evening Class

Same commons behind the fire house, same weapons and wands available for practicing your skills-- though this time under the cozy street lights and the bright blues and tired purples of a fading summer twilight. Strike at the training dummy or try to catch fireflies with whispers, its all up to you.


III. Things that Go Bump

Are bumping. And they mean business. A few level 1 corroded monsters are scurrying around Main Street causing havoc and it's up to you to stop them. The question is, is it early in the evening or do you dare to face the creatures at the night's darkest hour?


IV. It's time to Sparkle!

Everyone has a spark of imagination. That is, in fact, why you're here! It's time to shine with your own scenario! Just try to keep from causing too much trouble.

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Princess Leia Organa (5 and a half years old)- Star Wars

[princess_weia]

I. Main Street USA

Leia sat on a bench in the garden, eating an ice cream bar and watching the people go by. It was a bit warmer here than it typically was in Aldera City, even at the height of summer, so walking around all day in the heat tended to tire her out. The ice cream bar was nice and cold and tasty though, and it was even a fun shape! Though she wondered what it was supposed to represent; she'd seen the same symbol- three circles stuck together in a particular way- a few other places around town, so it must mean something. She'd have to remember to ask later.

Right now, though, she was content to eat her ice cream and people watch. Though anybody who saw her might find it somewhat odd that such a young child was apparently there all by herself.

II. Evening Training 101

Leia had done her best to follow the instructions Mr. Dreamfinder had given, but still wasn't honestly sure what she was supposed to be doing. He'd said that Princesses could heal here, but there was no way to practice that unless somebody got hurt, which she hoped wouldn't happen. So what else could she do?

Well, he'd also said everything there worked by imagination, so maybe if she imagined something really hard? She closed her eyes, her expression becoming one of intense effort as she focused on imagining the first unusual thing that came to mind: a pink thranta with purple polka dots. Maybe that would do something?

IV: Time to Sparkle!

The Emporium might seem an unusual place to find a little girl on her own, but Leia wasn't quite a typical little girl. She walked along, scanning the shelves in the children's merchandise section before stopping at a display of colorful picture books. It didn't take long for one of them to catch her eye, but there was a bit of a complication to her choice. Namely, the fact that it was on a shelf higher than she could reach, and the way the display was arranged made climbing up on something to try and reach impossible.

Thus she looked around until she spotted someone a bit taller before going up and saying, "Excuse me, but could you help me for a minute?"

IV

[ace_of_hearts]

"Sure thing, what can I do for you, Miss?" Because it's not often that really anyone approaches a shirtless tattooed pirate, much less nicely, but he does actually have manners, he worked very hard at them just so he could thank Shanks without making a complete tool of himself!

Also, he is very conveniently tall. And appearances can be decieving, she might have a devil fruit magic that made her appear younger than she really was.

Re: IV

[princess_weia]

Leia had been taught a bit too much etiquette and manners to her mind, but that didn't mean that she wasn't still polite to people who hadn't given her a reason not to be. Not to mention, Ace was hardly the strangest looking being she'd met, even as young as she was. Plus, this being an entirely different place from her galaxy, one couldn't really jump to conclusions in any case.

"I want to get a book, but it's too high up for me to reach," she said, indicating the display. "The one in the middle on the fourth shelf up. See it?" And when he saw the title of the book, it seem that the choice of asking Ace for help was made a bit amusing under the circumstances.

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[strangeandunusual]

It had been a busy day at the Camera Store, which meant that by the time Lydia got to hang up her apron and leave, she was two things: warm and hungry. Ice cream seemed the perfect solution to both problems, and she got herself a bar of her own, in line right behind the young girl.

"You had the right idea," she speaks up, smiling.

Re: 1

[princess_weia]

Leia looked up when the older girl spoke to her, smiling. "It's really good ice cream," she said. "I'm gonna get one of the fun shaped ice cream bars; what kind are you gonna get?"

I. Main Street USA

[serpentinthegarden]

A demon certainly wasn't the least bit worried for a young girl sitting alone on a bench eating an ice cream while families passed her by as she clearly didn't belong to them. Nor did he worry when some creepy looking guy spotted her and he certainly didn't move to block that man's approach when he finally decided to. None of that would have been very demonic at all. Nope, just satisfying some curiosity... maybe he could tempt her into stealing some candy, all very normal and perfectly acceptable demon things.

"So what's your deal," he spoke while looking off into the distance as is he wasn't speaking to the girl at all, "You lost?"

Re: I. Main Street USA

[princess_weia]

No clearly he wasn't worried at all; that would be silly.

Leia looked up when the man spoke, apparently completely unphased by the sight of a person with large, feathery wings. After all, when it came to strangeness- from a human perspective anyway-, that was nothing compared to how an Ithorian looked. He wasn't looking at her, but there was no one else near enough to them for him to have been talking to, so she opted to reply.

"No," she said then paused. "Well... maybe, I guess? I mean, I know how to get back to where they're letting us stay, but I was pulled through a big mirror and I can't really get back home from here."

"Did you get brought here through the mirror too?", she asked. After all, all the world's native inhabitants she'd seen- except one -were human, so there was a pretty good chance that anyone who was obviously not human was an 'Apprentice' like her.

Re: I. Main Street USA

[serpentinthegarden]

"Yea, big mirror, landed on some huge guy with a flaming head..."

This was too much! The teenagers that had arrived before were on the line of things but this. He turned to look at her properly, guessing her age to be of about oh... six if even, before that contemplative look morphed into an incredulous one.

"They are actually bringing children in here to fight? What are they thinking... You are human aren't you?"

Re: I. Main Street USA

[princess_weia]

Leia nodded. Yep, she was 100% human. "I don't know about fighting," she said. "I'm probably too little to really do anything like that." Adventurous she may be, but she highly doubted that creatures who were giving a world full of grown ups as much trouble as they apparently were would be at all impressed by a little girl kicking them in the shins.

"But Mr. Dreamfinder said that Princesses can heal things here, and I'm a Princess," she said. "So maybe I can help that way instead?"

Re: I. Main Street USA

[serpentinthegarden]

Crowley nodded with a sneer that, yes, she was definitely too young to be out there fighting.

"Another Princess."

That sounded safe enough. She wouldn't have to deal with Hades at all.

"Shouldn't you still be with someone, chaperone, parent... zoo keeper?"

Re: I. Main Street USA

[princess_weia]

"Yep," Leia confirmed. "Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan. But you can just call me Leia; titles take way too long to say when you don't have to." So surprise, Crowley, this Princess was actually royalty. "What's your name? And do you know any of the other Princes or Princesses?" Cause it sort of sounded like he did, and she should probably get to know the people she'd be working with.

"Well I have a roommate," she said, sounding just a touch defensive after the 'zookeeper' bit. She wasn't that much trouble. "But they didn't want to come out today and I did. And I've been doing just fine walking around by myself all day." Mostly because the cafe gave out free breakfast and lunch to Apprentices and the ice cream vendor was a nice guy, but details, details...

Re: I. Main Street USA

[serpentinthegarden]

As a former Nanny he wasn't going to buy that for a minute. Even quote, 'good kids' needed a zoo keeper from time to time.

"Anthony Crowley."

Though most tended naturally to prefer his last name he still offered the whole thing, after all he had dreamed it up so he might as well use it.

"And yeah, I've met a few Princess and Prince types, King Arthur was a card... Really should have paid more attention to Guinevere."

A beat.

"Oh, you mean here. Live with one, a Prince so he was told. You having any luck with that healing training?"

Re: I. Main Street USA

[princess_weia]

That was almost certainly true, but both Leia's attendant droid and any of her organic tutors or others assigned to watch her when her parents couldn't would object to being called a zookeeper, so Leia felt obligated to be mildly offended on their behalf. And besides, she was a Princess; even as young as she was, she had a few standards.

"It's nice to meet you, Mr. Crowley," she said, giving him a polite nod. She then had to hurry up and take a few quick nibbles of her ice cream bar so it wouldn't melt everywhere, but once that minor crisis was averted, she continued. "But no, not yet. I just got here a couple days ago, and no one's told me where to go for lessons yet." She knew that doctors and nurses had to go to school for a long time before they were allowed to heal people, so she assumed that there'd be healing lessons involved for her as well before she'd be allowed to help out.

[strangeandunusual]

"Those are good, yeah. I think I'll probably do the same thing. The ones that have gumballs for eyes are good, too, just... don't eat the gum, it's not that great." She smiled, having babysat a few kids in her New York days. "I'm Lydia. What's your name?"

Re: I. Main Street USA

[serpentinthegarden]

"Probably for the best. I don't know how the Princess classes go but the other ones tend to be rough."

Ice creams in summer heat were so very messy weren't they? Mind you, as he watched the young girl enjoying hers it did put him in mind for a Popsicle. Still messy but they did come in all of those wonderful fruity flavors.

"Where did you get that?"

Eleanor Shellstrop | The Good Place

[az_shrimp_horny]

I.

Eleanor frowned as she walked down the street, her hands stuffed in her pockets. This smelled wrong. Actually it smelled pretty amazing, but the place just felt wrong to her. She'd seen too many sides of The Bad Place... at least the ones she remembered... not to think that this was still some sort of trick. How could she trust anything here? It was all too weird.

Stopping, she sighed and wrapped her arms around her waist. She'd ditched the fake glasses but was still far to smartly dressed for her taste. Why the hell did Bad Place fashion have to be so... dated? Rolling her eyes in disgust, she finally turned to the nearest passerby "Hey are there any stores around here that sell clothes that don't look like kitschy tourist shit?"

II.

Eleanor waved her hands in front of her, taking a step back. There was too much and then there was too much and this was akin to asking her to marry Jason and move to Jacksonville to start a jazz club too much.

"Uh-uh. Magic? I don't think so. I don't know if you've noticed but I'm not some weird blue haired kid in a video game or whatever. Don't you have some twelve year old dweeb to ask to save the world? Amiright?" With the last word she elbowed the person next to her with a conspiratorial smirk just screaming for support in this.

IV.

It was late and Eleanor was currently yelling at the host outside the Red Wagon Restaurant. He was clearly refusing her entrance due to her atire - jeans and a hooded sweatshirt.

"C'mon, man! Who the fuck cares how I'm dressed? Just stick me in the kitchen, I don't care. Or better yet, why don't you just sneak a couple bottles of wine out the back for me?"

The host shook his head and she groaned, throwing her hands up, "What does a chick have to do to get a drink in this place?!"

IV

[az_shrimp_horny]

Okay so she's not that tall but she's definitely tall enough to reach the top shelf. So take that, kid!

It does take her a second to realize the small(ish) child is talking to her. She shrugged, turning and looking down at the kid, "I don't work here but what-evs, it's not like I've got anything better to do. What do you need squirt?"

[takeitsleazy]

Crowley had told Michael that there were finer things in the world to be had than a place that was simultaneously a Pizza Hut and a Taco Bell, so, being the sort who automatically had the right attire for the Red Wagon, he'd decided to give it a shot.

He'd been considering the consistency and strangeness of this thing called a "jacket potato" when the commotion had started outside. He stopped mashing his fork around in the thing and turned, not believing his ears. There was no way --

-- was there?

-- maybe there was.

Okay, there absolutely was. He got up and set his fork down, moving quickly toward the front of the house to put a hand smoothly on the usher's shoulder.

"Sorry, Kristof, she's my plus one. It's my fault, I forgot to tell her about the dress code. ... Twenty percent off next time you come in, if you do me a - what is it? A solid?"

He pursed his lips and met her eyes over his shoulder, trying not to explode with glee. Eleanor.

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[blessedarethebookmakers]

He has to do a double take when he sees her. The dress and the words are quite incongruous and for a moment he feels as if he's somehow stepped out of time. But then he smiles as much as he can and collects himself, hands folded in front of him while his large white wings shift a little behind him.

"The Emporium has a bit of a selection but nothing really quality, I'm afraid." At least not to him. But for someone using language like that, perhaps it wouldn't bother her. "I could show you the way, if you like."

[az_shrimp_horny]

Eleanor was just shy of flipping the guy off and trying to figure out a way to sneak in the kitchen entrance to score some booze when she heard an oh so familiar voice.

Her eyes widened and her breath hitched. Could it really be? Seriously? She was sure his atoms would have been scattered across a billion stars or whatever it was happened when he was 'retired.'

She just stared at him, utterly gobsmacked as the host gave Michael a dubious look. But twenty percent off was a good deal and he couldn't pass that up. So he decided to look the other way just this once. When he walked off, giving Eleanor one final glare, Eleanor shook her head. "You son of a bitch. This isn't just some other weird-ass level of The Bad Place is it?"

[az_shrimp_horny]

Her eyes widen, "Whooooooa those are some crazy wings, dude."

Wait... waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait... Her eyes widen even more. Wings. Fancy clothes. Polite, well spoken guy. Her voice is suddenly breathy, "Is this... is this The Good Place? I mean, they told me it wasn't but... is it?"

A girl can hope, can't she?

[blessedarethebookmakers]

Oh... One of Michael's... associates. Or perhaps something other because he can see the hope light her eyes. He's not sure what he is sadder for, the inevitable disappointment or the fact that this what she can even consider something like Heaven. Surely standards haven't gotten quite that low.


"I'm afraid not. It's just... a different place." He's not entirely sure how to explain it.

[takeitsleazy]

"No. Cross my heart and hope to fry." He held up a hand, then pulled in a deep breath. Knowing what he did about Rose and the Doctor, this could get complicated if he wasn't careful. "Come on, have a seat."

He steered her through the restaurant, back toward his table, shucking off his suit coat. "Ditch the hoodie. Take my jacket. What's the last thing you remember?" Even as he was maneuvering her to an empty chair and pulling it out, he caught a waiter's eye and flagged him over.

"Shrimp cocktail and a margarita, please."

[az_shrimp_horny]

She let him steer her, shaking her head in shock. This place had gone from weird to bat-shit crazy central but now she at least had an ally. Hopefully. At the very least he was a familiar face.

Doing as she was told, she unzipped her hoodie, pulling it off and tossing it under the table. She was swimming in his jacket and probably looked ridiculous but it covered her garishly colored t-shirt. Rolling up the sleeves a little she smirked at him, "hey thanks! And the last thing I remember was you shoving me through the portal before the Bad Place goons nabbed you." Standing, she punched him in the shoulder, "Dude! What the hell were you thinking?!"

[az_shrimp_horny]

That glimmer of hope crumbles and blows away like the ashes of a burned book. She sighs, her shoulders slumping.

"Yeah I shoulda guessed as much. That'd just be too easy." Once upon a time she'd have told him to fuck off and pranced off to find someone else to talk to. But Chidi had been an excellent teacher. She looks up, forcing a small smile, "I'm sorry. I just... I saw the wings and thought that maybe... " She shakes her head, waving a hand in front of her, "You know what? That doesn't matter. Let's just start over."

Taking a step closer, she extends a hand, "Hi. I'm Eleanor Shellstrop."