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    This is a thread for plots not large enough to need a separate thread, or locations that don't fit anywhere else. If you'd like a location permanently indexed in the first post, PM me.

    Longer lasting or more serious plots might fit better in the Srs Plots thread. This thread is events that aren't as structured as srs and not as long lasting. If you aren't sure which thread fits your plot best, then just pick whichever one is less busy at the time.

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    [Bishop's Car]

    "Can we afford that long of a delay? Well, I told her to come towards here anyway. Come on, go!"
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    [Bishop's Car]
    Bishop nods, calling Circe again to redirect her. At the first red light they reach, the tear-stained Fangire girl runs over from the sidewalk, clambering into the back of the car before they pull off again.
    "I-I'm here, I..." She swallows, hanging her head, knowing she failed to protect Seiner as she was asked.
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    [Bishop's Car]

    "I know. I couldn't stop her alone either. I didn't imagine you'd have to. You can make it up to her now." Pat-pat goes a comforting hand on Circe's shoulder. Not Riki's hand, of course, those are busy being clenched in fear.
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    [Bishop's Car]
    She nods, sniffling a little. She is quiet while they drive, scooting to rest a little against Riki, hoping to make them both feel a little better.

    The scenery changes as they start to head out of the city and suburbs towards the countryside, houses getting less frequent as they go.
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    Aww, it's a leaning fangire. Riki cuddles against her for the ride. "Circe, you tried, and you warned us just when you could." It wasn't supposed to go wrong this quickly. But then, she wasn't supposed to fall in love with the new King either.

    Riki glances out the window occasionally, wondering just where this place is, whether Bishop is leading them to their deaths, praying they'll be in time.
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    [Small Town, Big House]
    Thryza kisses back softly, then seats herself to wait for them to return. Her nervousness dropping away, she lets herself daydream a bit about their wedding. Small, but not needing to be big; simple, but not scanty; happy, the most important part.
    Thyrza may be able to hear Hildur talking with her father in Swedish. The voices get louder over time, but then they suddenly cut out. Then, about a minute later: "Thyrza!"

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    [Bishop's Car]
    Circe holds her a little bit, nodding and sniffling.

    Eventually, a great old country estate looms off to the left.
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    [Small Town, Big House]
    Thryza trots to the door, worried. "Er, yes, what is it?"
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    Small Town, Big House

    "Come in, please!" Hildur says. She sounds a little panicky.

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    [Small Town, Big House]
    Thryza pulls open the door, wondering what's going on and what's got her fiancee so scared.
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    Circe holds her a little bit, nodding and sniffling.

    Eventually, a great old country estate looms off to the left.
    "The House of Petals." Someone just has to announce it. Riki draws a bit away from Circe, ready to leap out the car as soon as it stops.
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    [House of Petals]
    Circe is not so quick to get out when they stop in front of the gates of the estate's wall, but she does get out, followed by Bishop. The manor is set atop a rise, looming and antiquated but fairly well-kept.
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    [House of Petals]

    "What should I know about this place?"

    Riki heads to the gates, trying to throw them open or slide them back, as is appropriate.
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    [House of Petals]
    Open they are thrown; Bishop cautiously takes a step down the gravel pathway to the front door, glancing around before starting to slowly advance.
    "This is Kusu's home. She doesn't bother with things like booby-traps or anything, but it's likely she'll have guards... of course, there's also the fact that we are currently walking into the den of the most powerful Fangire alive, as well as one of the most experienced. You handled Rook pretty well, but...well... this is going to be a lot harder."
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    To contrast, Riki is practically running up the rise towards the house. The sound of too many footsteps follows her.

    "With two other fangire, two of my kind and hopefully the help of the king. She'll likely have a lot of dead guards in a moment. Come on, we're in a hurry here!"
    Oh look, Riki's plucked the old Rook's quickly refused sword out of the air. Wonder where that came from.
    "If she's anything like before, she'll spend a while taunting me and reminding me of how to beat her."
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    The room is truly gigantic. It's at least a kilometer on each side, far too big to fit in the space before the next door on the outside. If Marciano's seen Harald's trick with his pockets before, he might make the connection.

    There are racks, cases and stands everywhere, with a huge amount of weaponry and armour laden on them.

    ((Harald's pockets often contain things way too big to fit.))
    Marciano walks into the room and sits thee at his computer, just staring around. ...I just hit such the jackpot... Heh. Jackpot. Cause I own a casino. Hehe. Jackpot. Get it? I... don't know who he's talking to. Anyway, he moves over to the armor and weaponry and begins stuffing them into his sack. He'll fit as much as absolutely possible. After all, this was his one chance to recover this tech before the pyschos below come up to blow the place up.

    How much will he be able to recover?

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    To contrast, Riki is practically running up the rise towards the house. The sound of too many footsteps follows her.

    "With two other fangire, two of my kind and hopefully the help of the king. She'll likely have a lot of dead guards in a moment. Come on, we're in a hurry here!"
    Oh look, Riki's plucked the old Rook's quickly refused sword out of the air. Wonder where that came from.
    "If she's anything like before, she'll spend a while taunting me and reminding me of how to beat her."
    [House of Petals]
    Bishop curses, running after her while Circe follows behind.
    The front doors can be pushed through, and from the foyer Riki will be able to see through the doorway into the main hall, where Kusu stands before a marble throne. The Queen is looking rather pleased with herself, and seems to have gone to the trouble of strewing the path from the door to the throne with flower petals.
    There's flair and then there's just showing off...
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    Marciano walks into the room and sits thee at his computer, just staring around. ...I just hit such the jackpot... Heh. Jackpot. Cause I own a casino. Hehe. Jackpot. Get it? I... don't know who he's talking to. Anyway, he moves over to the armor and weaponry and begins stuffing them into his sack. He'll fit as much as absolutely possible. After all, this was his one chance to recover this tech before the pyschos below come up to blow the place up.

    How much will he be able to recover?
    A lot. It should be noted, however, that there are no really high-power weapons here. Just more conventional stuff, if very well-made. The armour is likewise forged of standard materials.
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    [House of Petals]

    Well the place had to earn its name somehow. You don't get to be a house of <noun> without showing off.
    Riki slows down as she crashes through the front doors and heads in through the foyer. Odd that Kusu isn't sitting in the throne...oh. Are they already too late?

    "Kusu, what are you doing?"
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    [House of Petals]
    Kusu giggles, stepping to the side to show what's behind Curtain #1.
    Seiner is sitting there in new clothes; black leather pants, a black jacket with a white fur collar, and the King's blue scarf draped over her shoulder. On the back of her palm, the King's mark.
    She looks exhausted, pale and dark under eyes that are red and puffy from crying. When she sees Riki, she seems to brighten a little, smiling weakly and trying to sit up from her slump, but can hardly move. "N-Nines..."

    The Queen grins. "What am I doing? Well, I'm about to kill little Crimes's girlfriend in front of her, thereby breaking her wholly and making her my plaything. I'm actually glad you came, since this'll be quicker than it would take otherwise, Riki darling."

    Bishop and Circe enter behind Riki, getting a small, annoyed huff from Kusu.

    Flanking the walls are the guards... or, judging by their uniforms, valets.
    Probably both.
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    [House of Petals]

    "Seiner! You're still...you." Riki would have let out a relieved breath, but she had to breathe in specifically to talk, so it's just not going to work. "No, Kusu. If you were going to do that, you would have taken us when we were asleep in the tower, before I killed your little peacock. I don't imagine you'll miss her, but wasn't it a bit of a waste if you let her die like that? You're just trying to give up your throne with some stupid melodramatic showdown."

    "Ione, torch the building." There's laughter in the thin quiet voice that questioned Circe and steps back towards the door.

    Riki takes a few falsely-confident steps into the main hall. "You all on the wall. I give you one chance to surrender and depart with your lives." She heads towards a articular guard-valet on the left of the room and tries to set a hand on his shoulder. Easily interruptable before getting there, of course.
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    [House of Petals]
    Kusu rolls her eyes. "I let you live the first time because of my lingering fondness for you, my dear. Obviously my generosity has been well and truly wasted---did you really have to kill my dear little Rook? Such nicely toned legs, all gone to waste now, just like everything about you." She sighs.

    The valet does not move, his face utterly impassive.

    "See, you seem to think you have a chance at defeating me, which is honestly pretty silly." The Queen sits on the arm of the throne, toying with her hair.

    Bishop and Circe stand warily together, glancing about.
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    [Main Hall of Petals]

    Riki sighs. The fangire are never going to take this seriously. That's not the world they live in. "I'm afraid I did. Like almost all of your people, she refused to listen to reason." Riki studies the valet idly. Probably some poor person the Queen had done whatever to. As good as dead already. She whips her hand across him, fingers narrowing to blades in an attempt to slice his head off. That should either provoke a minor reaction or rid the room of one of them.

    "Watch us, Kusie."
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    [House of Petals - Hall]
    His hand snaps up, blocking her attack somewhat. Rather than slicing his head off, her fingers slice his cheek to ribbons---unpleasant, but not an instant kill.
    Simultaneously, all the valets transform, their Fangire forms resembling warrior ants.

    "Oh, I'm watching. Well, mostly."

    The valet-antsstart to close in; the one Riki attacked strikes back with a backhand sweep of his arm.
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    [House of Ants]

    Riki ducks down and lets the swipe pass over her, then springs back up into an attempted uppercut. A slight motion of her other hand indicates 'wait'.
    "This is what you warned us about Bishop. Let's go!"

    Outside, a non-woozle-pire is examining the House of Petals to assess its flamability. They didn't really bring a lot of incendiaries today.
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    [House of Petals]
    One of the valets comes toward Circe... and is promptly hurled back by a torrent of blue flame that, while it neither burns nor kills him, hits like a linebacker. A really racist linebacker.
    Bishop's mark pulses on her hand as she grits her teeth. "We're doomed, aren't we?"

    The valet is uppercutted, stumbling back, but two more come at Riki from left and right!

    Outside, the manor's exterior has a depressingly stony appearance, boring and stodgy and not very burny. Jerks.
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    [House of Linebackers]

    "By these? Hardly." Riki leaps up above the ant-gires, flips over, and endeavors to grab the two and slam their silly insect heads together before landing behind them.

    How irritating! Some footsteps make their way inside. There's probably some furniture to use as fuel somewhere.
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    [House of Petals]
    Clonk! They get smacked together like a pair of Stooges, but they turn around to attack again!

    Meanwhile, the furniture does look rather burny, especially in the drawing room.
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    [House of Stooges]

    Riki turns back to face them, drawing the beetle-sword and slicing at the ants in one motion. She also tries to count the valets as she spins about.

    Meanwhile, cabinets are being smashes and chairs piled and small quantities of kerosene poured until finally the drawing room is ready to be lit. A match is struck and placed.
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    [House of Wise Guy, Eh? *eyepoke*]
    Twelve in all! Well, ten now, and these guys manifest spears as they come at her, not so keen to get into sword range. Bishop and Circe are still fighting off to the side.

    Elsewhere, fire! It is very fire, and also hot. Oh no, the horsehair sofa!
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