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Re: [Nexus] AMEN XLIII: Ilphocracy!
Main Room -> Ilph's Room
Ilpholin leads Magtok away and into her office room and repeats the measures she did with Darcy to make it secure.
She'll go ahead and hand him the clipboard with the figures on it.
"First things first, the henchmen are claiming they got paid from Gordon's own personal stash. What sort of money does AMEN have for resources anyways?"
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Ilph's Room
Eeeergh. Magtok squirms uncomfortably. Finance has never been one of his favorite subjects.
"Well, I suppose we could always ask them where Gordon's stash is and just raid that. Until then, since we're giving them immortality, lodging, food, and everything else, we could ask that they hold on to their pay stubs until proper funding is available. Do you know anyone who might be willing to buy Gordon's old helicopter off of us? I don't particularly need it, and with Gordon in the state he's in, I don't think he'll be getting any use out of it either."
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Ilph's Room
"What... AMEN didn't have any funding before Gordon showed up? I can't believe that..."
There's got to be something somewhere.
"But I'll ask." If Phantom's interested in running a plot for stealing his moneys perhaps a henchman might even know.
"I dunno. Sell it to NO or something so they can ride around and pretend they're the A-team. I already promised some money to some scientists for them to build us a few robots and creepy soldiers."
"I also had an expedition in mind that should get us some resources, but I doubt the amount of money Gordon had."
"Now... how do you feel about doing background checks on potential incoming members? Check out their references, see where they've been, if they've actually murdered who they claim, that sort of thing." Not the easiest to do in the Nexus perhaps, but still doable.
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Ilph's Room
Magtok bites his lip.
"Sure, I could do that...but there's still going to be some troublemakers who slip through. Anyone can lie on a resume if they know what they're doing."
Things'll be safer, but continue to keep an eye out for saboteurs, is what he's saying.
"While we're on the subject, should we keep the blood oath thing? It was alright back in the day, but now that there are actual eldritch beings appearing in the Nexus every now and then, we run the risk of someone being obligated to go apocalyptic on us or get mind-controlled into throwing themselves into some loathsome squid-monster cavernous sideways razor beak. It's not happened before, but...well, y'know."
Always a first for everything.
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Ilph's Room
"I have something in mind for those who slip through. I'll let you know if it pans out." Ilpholin explains.
"You're probably right. Though I think the smart ones neither signed in their own blood or used their real name." The rest probably deserve to be thrown in sideways!
"But we'll revert it to a more standard signing. The form will, of course, require them to list some references and such for you to check on. In addition, I'm thinking membership interviews. To know what we have coming in rather than being all shocked when they're sitting in our living room and such." Sign up, go through interview, go through check, and you're in.
"I'm leaning towards going over old members too. I know there's a few I need to get to know better. Cyrus in particular concerns me. He was far too buddy buddy with Prom and Gordon."
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(I'm okay with an attempt to get some of his money. Mind you, its only some of his money, he wasn't stupid enough to have it all in one place.)
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Ilph's Room
Mag shrugs.
"I dunno, I think he just bid too heavily on the wrong horse is all. Seems pretty arrogant though, the sort to beat a horse to death before admitting he was wrong. If he doesn't retire on his own, swear some sort of vendetta, insist that the old way of things was better, try to enlist help from Rogar, and/or resurrect Dimwits and Dragons, I'll be surprised."
Mag peers down at his wrist, idly checking up on the goings-on in the Main Room. Not much happening, it seems. He isn't quite sure whether to consider that a blessing or a curse.
"Anything else?"
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Ilph's Room
"Yes, I'd be rather surprised as well. Which is why we should try and decide if we're going to kick him out or not." Ilpholin explains. Someone willing to do those things should probably be removed before they get a chance to do so.
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Ilph's Room
"If he comes back, it means he wants to stay, and he's liable to make a fight out of getting him to leave if we try to throw him out. I think it might get more accomplished if we were to feign forgiveness, get some sort of tracking device on him, and then wait for him to inadvertently help us by locating Rogar and whatever it is that Rogar is almost certainly up to."
Aargh, why didn't he just put a bullet in that minion's face when he had the chance? Sure, it would've meant instigating a massive fight and all, but...blargh. Villainy is never easy. :smallyuk:
"If you think we can quickly and efficiently execute him, I'm all for throwing him out of AMEN, but again, it could get messy, and we'd probably be fighting on his terms, too."
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Ilph's Room
"Hmm... I'll consider it." Ilpholin says.
"Was there anything you wished to discuss before tomorrow's meeting?" Ilpholin can't think of anything else at this time.
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The Alexandrian
[Door]
The Hatteress stares at the funny little man who has come a-calling. She is no longer familiar with the registration protocols of the organization. Hmm. This is going to take some doing. She was relatively neutral in the power dispute, so...
Yeah. She can let him in for now. Can't let him stir up the hornet's nest though.
The Hatteress stands aside! She eyes the man suspiciously before addressing him.
"Well Mister Fancy-Pants, you need to go find a drow or talk to that guy-"
The Hatteress points at Magtok who may or may not currently be smirking like only Magtok can. Such charm and cunningly subtle evil Maggy keeps!
"-about signing on."
"If you don't, something around here may or may not kill you, so I recommend you hop to it, boy!"
Marciano nods. Excellent! Well, Who are you? I'm 'ere to join. Tha' an' I 'eard tha' this place 'as a cloning thingamabob. I would like to use one. I got meself th' money. I'm ratha good a' wha' I do. Marciano moves inside and is followed by Grantaire. Grantaire is rather fat. Somewhat built like a large rock. Grantaire has a large head on mustache. Marciano has a small mustache that goes with his one mole. He walks around to find Magtok. Oy! Peopls? 'Ave ya seen a cyborg guy around? I'm supposed to talk t' 'im.
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Ilph's Room
"There's a guy outside who's either drunk or has the most ridiculous accent. Wants to join, pay money to be cloned, has a sorta tubby bodyguard fellow with him. Smells like potential inconvenience to me. Should I tell him to hold off until we have the new recruit system in place, let him in under the old regulations, or BS something on the spot?
Beside that though, no, I don't think there's anything else."
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Marciano does in fact have an odd cockney accent. He sits on a chair that Grantaire pulls out a little bag. The chair has jeweled cushions. It is very comfy. Marciano sits down and continues smoking that massive cigar. Grnataire looks around before sitting on the floor. Grantaire takes out an odd trinket out of a bag. He begins tinkering with it with a toolbox. Marciano has a nasal, annoying voice. Oy, Grnataire. This is th' life eh? All ya gots t' do is keep your wits about ya. Then you'll stand on top! Tha's 'ow ya become a master 'o' th' land! Rob th' righ' people. For th' righ' price. Marciano the halfling states. Grantaire the rather buff, fat halfling replies in a gutteral voice that sounds almost dwarvish. Hehe. I guess. It didn't look to great back there though. It woul' 'ave been a shame if we 'ad t' kill 'em all.
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Ilph's Room
"Ugh. Cloning. We gotta do less of that here. Actually in fact, you should probably check and see if Rogar's cloning Gordon now or something. But no, let's not let that guy touch it."
...
"Oh wait. Idea. Take the money for the cloning and go through the process but don't actually get him any clones. If he dies, he won't know the difference anyway, right? Then tell him he'll need to wait a bit on actual recruitment but can stay until tomorrow." Which should be coming up rapidly here.
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Ilph's Room
Magtok turns towards the door with a nod.
"Sure. How much did the Rainbow Brite Gang want each month? I'll charge him that. We're promising him immortality, it shouldn't be anywhere near cheap."
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Becky seems to have poofed!
This might be because Becky is also arriving with Dave and Clarissa outside, and thus Becky-that-was-here got mauled by the Vengeful Ghost of Continuity!
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Ilph's Room
Ilpholin looks at the clipboard and quotes a figure.
"That much."
Ilpholin says, standing and stretching.
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Marciano continues to sit in his chair. He's rather ugly. He has a small pencil thin mustache, and a black mole. His eyes are black and beady. Like a shark. He takes out an ivory backscratcher and begins to scratch himself. He then stretches and hands the ivory backscratching to Grantaire, who sets it in his bag. Grantaire wonders when he may try out his new weapon. He didn't get to use the bomb cannon last time...
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Ilph's Room => Main Room
"Right. If that doesn't pan out I'll see what I can do. Oh, and supplementing AMEN with MagCorp money is going to be a last resort, only if we're absolutely certain to fall apart without it. I've more than enough expenses to worry about without handling the Moffs and their jacuzzi repair bills."
Magtok makes a sort of face at that, and then steps out the door.
"Yo! Mister Fancy-Pants, was it? I heard you like clones. Well, we've got them, and they're expensive as caviar seasoned with five grams of swiss gold eaten out of a bowl carved from diamond-encrusted moon rock stolen from space imps by the most prestigious band of astro-ninja the world has ever seen. Pricy as **** is what I'm saying. Think you can handle that?"
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Lobby
About time someone go' 'ere. Nice t' meet ya! M'names Le Baron de Marci, Marciano for short. He shoves a gloved hand at Magtok. Expensive ya say! Well, I jus' go' meself a small fortune off 'o' a very good ransom. For Remnant even! Right under their noses! Tha' an' the war in Cylar has been very good for me. It's amazing what ya c'n find in the corpses of the fallen. No' like they need em anymore. He grins that evil grin. His mouth is full of rotted decaying teeth.
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Becky seems to have poofed!
This might be because Becky is also arriving with Dave and Clarissa outside, and thus Becky-that-was-here got mauled by the Vengeful Ghost of Continuity!
Entrance -> Clarissa's Room
Yes but...they may be down to their skivvies by now.
Dave certainly is.
"stupid Teleporting...always taking my clothes..." Dave grumbles as he gets off the motorcycle and tries to pick up Clarissa and carry her to her room.
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[Off to Clarissa's Lair]
...Of DOOM!
Yessir, Clarissa is being mangled by the grouchy Mister Timestream again. She's also getting manhandled by Dave consecutively. Hmm. That's not a very strong deterrent against her repeating this little stunt at some point in the future. Plus, there's free sleep-transportation involved. It would remind her of her first Nexus helicopter flight if she were aware of her present status even partially.
Would you look at that! Clarissa is now pushing the lines of decency. When isn't she doing that? This is usually an intended rebellion against conservative social norms.
This is a complete surprise to her. Well, it would be, if she could think straight or be troubled to wake up to assess it.
Then, boom! Undergarments! Undergarments that really aren't accomplishing their duties properly and should be fired without delay! Clarissa's tails (three going on four) have negated the effectiveness of most of her lacy getup. While her wolf ears appear to be shrinking back down to nothingness, sharp, threatening spikes begin to protrude from her spine ever so slowly.
Looks like Clarissa has, in her drunken paradise, whimsically decided that a time limit must be imposed on Dave's noble goal. :smalltongue:
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[Halls]
The party winding down and things settling for the night, Ilpholin has to find something to do just to pass the time to tomorrow and create the time skip.
So she goes looking for Valente. She'd go for Becky too, but Becky's clearly not to be found, hiding in someone else's room.
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[Halls]
Valente was still wandering around, looking out for trouble as instructed. When Ilpholin approaches his face splits in a smile. "Hey Ilpholin. Looks like things are going smoothly. At least no one is causing trouble." Not that he's seen at least. Of course, his player hasn't been following AMEN as closely as he should have been.
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[Halls]
"Good. I'd like to thank you for all your help." Ilpholin says, swooping in for a Bliss filled kiss, her hand reaching to entwine with his.
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[Halls]
Well, straight to the point. Valente doesn't get a chance to even get a single word out before he's kissed. The vampire kisses back enthusiastically.
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[Halls -> Ilph's Room]
Ilpholin continues the kissing as she goes to walks and lead them back to her room. She's very good at multi-tasking in this manner.
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[Ilph's Room]
No doubt she can make up for Valente's lack of experience. Once they do get there there'll be no delay before the curtain is pulled. Not from Valente at least.
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[Ilph's Room]
It's curtains for them.
Barring anything else, the curtains will rise the next day as Ilpholin crawls out of bed to get cleaned, dressed, and ready to work.
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[Ilph's Room]
Valente lets her do that while he just pulls on his own clothing. He can get dressed and cleaned up in his own room.
When Ilpholin is done and returns to the room proper, she'll she Valente sitting at the edge of the bed, looking completely absent. He doesn't even glance when she comes in, as if he never noticed.