A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

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Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Honorordeath » Sun Oct 21, 2018 3:19 am

"Then," she said with a smirk, leading the woman back toward the rear rooms. "Allow us to begin our conversation... in full..." she smiled once more.

[Fade to Back Room]

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Syzygy Anion » Sat Oct 20, 2018 12:03 pm

"That is very tempting, and very generous of you." she grinned. "I was hoping to make some friends here, the kind I might do more business with. But, a very special friend would be quite satisfying."

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Honorordeath » Sat Oct 20, 2018 1:14 am

Syzygy Anion wrote:
Honorordeath wrote:"I tend to agree," said the woman, looking down at her counterpart. "Why don't we take an excursion into the back... and you can begin to regale me with the tales of all that you hope for from this life?" she added the last with a teasing smirk.

"What's in the back?" she asked. "What can you show me there that you can't show me here?"


"More of me," she said with a knowing smirk. "I grow tired of wearing things for the appearance's sake of others. I would prefer our conversation be of the more," she grinned, "intimate orientation. If that is something that piques your interest?"

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Honorordeath » Sat Oct 20, 2018 1:12 am

Yara Suhr wrote:Yara laughs quietly, shaking her head a little. "I used to think it was actually rather a worthy talent to be able to tailor one's words to the liking of people with some sort of power. That led me into the worst mistakes of my life... well, it was part of the reason, at least. So I try not to do it any more. It's--a different kind of self-preservation instinct. I do respect that it doesn't bother you."

She looks over and up at Mulgin's employee. Anything, eh? She's half-tempted to really test that proposition, just to see how everyone reacts. But most of the wilder things that spring immediately to mind would, if they were actually provided, make her the opposite of comfortable.

"I'm about as comfortable, as I could be, Mr. Mulgin. But to engage in my end of the exchange..." she considers for a few moments more, "I haven't had an ice cream in quite some time. That might be nice." She smiles with a cheer slightly exaggerated for comic effect.


Mulgin nodded to the woman and she cheerily said, "I'll be right back~!"

"Now, if you have any other requests for the remainder of the night. You know all you need to do," he said with a bit of a smile. Laying his hands out onto the table and then cupping them into one another. "No, as for our conversation. How about we..." he says, and continues to delve into a conversation with Yara Suhr. Broaching, perhaps unexpectedly, a variety of more learned and high brow topics than one might have expected of a known ranking member in the Black Sun. Eventually Yara was brought the ice cream she was promised and any other requests, through the course of the night, were met with the same cheerful acceptance as each on before it.

[Fade to Conversation/Party]

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Honorordeath » Sat Oct 20, 2018 12:55 am

Korvalus Dunbri wrote:
Honorordeath wrote:"Now," she said with a large smile, "isn't that you just avoiding looking to your past by looking to mine?" she asked cheekily.


Kor smirked at that "perhaps you are right, I don't much like talking about myself if I'm being honest. I'm more of a listener usually."


"We'll see, I'll get you talking about something," she teased with a smile. Leading him off into the party.

[Fade into Party for these two?]

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Yara Suhr » Fri Oct 19, 2018 11:28 pm

Rullarc Mulgin wrote:One of the staff joined the table, leaning against it cheerfully as she looked between the two but settled in and waited for Rullarc's guidance. "I intend," he began, "to share the rest of this evening discussing topics that interest me with an individual that doesn't allow fear to change their response to me. I would like to enjoy a conversation with a stranger of merit. One such person that I can admire for the work they put into this world. As such," he said, glancing then to the woman who had approached, "make any request that you might, Dr. Suhr. You will receive anything you require to be made comfortable for this evening and that you remain here and speak with me longer is all that I ask of you in return."

"A..mutually beneficial arrangement I am sure to which you can agree?"


Yara laughs quietly, shaking her head a little. "I used to think it was actually rather a worthy talent to be able to tailor one's words to the liking of people with some sort of power. That led me into the worst mistakes of my life... well, it was part of the reason, at least. So I try not to do it any more. It's--a different kind of self-preservation instinct. I do respect that it doesn't bother you."

She looks over and up at Mulgin's employee. Anything, eh? She's half-tempted to really test that proposition, just to see how everyone reacts. But most of the wilder things that spring immediately to mind would, if they were actually provided, make her the opposite of comfortable.

"I'm about as comfortable, as I could be, Mr. Mulgin. But to engage in my end of the exchange..." she considers for a few moments more, "I haven't had an ice cream in quite some time. That might be nice." She smiles with a cheer slightly exaggerated for comic effect.

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Syzygy Anion » Fri Oct 19, 2018 10:15 pm

Honorordeath wrote:"I tend to agree," said the woman, looking down at her counterpart. "Why don't we take an excursion into the back... and you can begin to regale me with the tales of all that you hope for from this life?" she added the last with a teasing smirk.

"What's in the back?" she asked. "What can you show me there that you can't show me here?"

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Korvalus Dunbri » Fri Oct 19, 2018 9:16 pm

Honorordeath wrote:"Now," she said with a large smile, "isn't that you just avoiding looking to your past by looking to mine?" she asked cheekily.


Kor smirked at that "perhaps you are right, I don't much like talking about myself if I'm being honest. I'm more of a listener usually."

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Honorordeath » Fri Oct 19, 2018 9:05 pm

Korvalus Dunbri wrote:
Honorordeath wrote:Massive shoulders shifted up and then back down again "I have stories some consider interesting. But I rarely talk of the past. Dead men are stuck in the past, us living folk should stick to the present and occasionally look to the future."

"Besides I wish to know more of you, are you a native of Noventa?"


"Now," she said with a large smile, "isn't that you just avoiding looking to your past by looking to mine?" she asked cheekily.

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Honorordeath » Fri Oct 19, 2018 9:01 pm

Syzygy Anion wrote:"Sometimes, you don't know what you want, until you learn what you can have." She took the woman's hand. "There are many opportunities in this room, for both of us. We should make the most of it."


"I tend to agree," said the woman, looking down at her counterpart. "Why don't we take an excursion into the back... and you can begin to regale me with the tales of all that you hope for from this life?" she added the last with a teasing smirk.

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Honorordeath » Fri Oct 19, 2018 8:59 pm

Lena Arcturus wrote:Lena chuckled lightly, then shrugged. "I am just hoping that you might know someone who would be interested in offering some work." She frowned. "On the... whiter side of the law."


"Honey," said the blue Twi'lek condescendingly. Prompting the green Twi'lek to jump in, "What law are you most concerned with? The Law of Providencetown, the New Republic, Noventa City?" she rattled off the few that were most important. "Maybe the old laws of the Empire?" added the other with a shrug. "So many laws to keep track of."

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Lena Arcturus » Fri Oct 19, 2018 3:00 pm

Honorordeath wrote:"There are many who prefer our type of..." one drifted on the thought and the other picked up where she left off, "companionship. Why have only one friend when you can have two?" she said cheerfully.

"Why do you ask?"


Lena chuckled lightly, then shrugged. "I am just hoping that you might know someone who would be interested in offering some work." She frowned. "On the... whiter side of the law."

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Korvalus Dunbri » Fri Oct 19, 2018 11:07 am

Honorordeath wrote:"You must have plenty of stories to talk about from those days of excitement too?" she said.


Massive shoulders shifted up and then back down again "I have stories some consider interesting. But I rarely talk of the past. Dead men are stuck in the past, us living folk should stick to the present and occasionally look to the future."

"Besides I wish to know more of you, are you a native of Noventa?"

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Honorordeath » Fri Oct 19, 2018 6:26 am

"There are many who prefer our type of..." one drifted on the thought and the other picked up where she left off, "companionship. Why have only one friend when you can have two?" she said cheerfully.

"Why do you ask?"

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Lena Arcturus » Fri Oct 19, 2018 4:31 am

Honorordeath wrote:
"Rullarc Mulgin," said the Twi'lek circling behind her. Looking over her shoulder to the other who looked back at her. "Rullarc Mulgin is the mayor of Providencetown. There is nothing that happens here that he does not hear of. He's a very... powerful man. Many friends. Lots of friends. He's the one hosting this party tonight, the one you can thank for having all of this... for free," she said. Then, they both spoke in unison, "We want to know, what brings you here?"


Lena nodded and listened. She smirked at the creepy unified speech. "I'm new here, and so is my crew." She glanced at Jelna briefly. "We're looking for opportunities, you know. Establishing a little nest egg, perhaps." She turned from the man before it turned into ogling, her gaze settling onto the pair around her. "I will be sure to thank him for this opportunity if we meet." She titled her head, her eyes moving from one girl to the other. "I am sure you the pair of you are fairly popular in the town, aren't you?"

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Rullarc Mulgin » Fri Oct 19, 2018 4:06 am

One of the staff joined the table, leaning against it cheerfully as she looked between the two but settled in and waited for Rullarc's guidance. "I intend," he began, "to share the rest of this evening discussing topics that interest me with an individual that doesn't allow fear to change their response to me. I would like to enjoy a conversation with a stranger of merit. One such person that I can admire for the work they put into this world. As such," he said, glancing then to the woman who had approached, "make any request that you might, Dr. Suhr. You will receive anything you require to be made comfortable for this evening and that you remain here and speak with me longer is all that I ask of you in return."

"A..mutually beneficial arrangement I am sure to which you can agree?"

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Yara Suhr » Fri Oct 19, 2018 3:07 am

"Perfectly reasonable. It's your party." Yara laces her fingers on the tabletop, leans back a little into the corner of the booth with the smile still playing at the corners of her lips.

Yes, pretend you're talking with a vice-chancellor...maybe that one vice-chancellor, the one everyone whispered about. Well, I used to do it just fine.

"I take it you have something in mind?" Her eyes follow his gesture, as he'd no doubt intended.

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Honorordeath » Fri Oct 19, 2018 2:21 am

"Perhaps I am just the type of man that wishes to relish in his accomplishments, for a time," he teased the idea with a grin. Watching to see that the woman was properly settled before taking to the seat opposite her. "I am not as young as I once was, back when I scraped my way out of the depths of Coruscant. Back before the time of the Empire. Politics never remember the little guy. Right underneath the noses of the Senate people were allowed to suffer. Just because you see that here, now, it will not always be like this. My aim is to turn Providencetown into something unlike anywhere else. People across the galaxy will know it's name because of what I have accomplished here and will continue to do so."

"You are no doubt more learned than I am, Doctor Suhr, so I will leave that definition to as you see fit. However, for tonight, I aim to enjoy my evening," he said, signalling for something.

When Yara checked her exits all she would be reminded of is the absolute power he controlled here in Providencetown, especially the upper parts of the city. Where guests still filtered in for the nights event there were a line of guards and bouncers making sure that no one who wasn't supposed to be there got through without paying their dues. Outside that line she would remember the security forces, or at least those that were likely crooks pretending to be security forces, dotted the streets forged from the craft they now called a town but was growing more akin to a city.

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Yara Suhr » Fri Oct 19, 2018 1:34 am

"What you consider magnanimity, I think most political theorists would simply call 'the social contract.'"

A wry smile pulls at Yara's mouth as she slides into the booth at his invitation, smoothing her skirt. Checking sightlines to the exits, too, since her conversation partner has been at some pains to remind her that there's no real law in this town apart from his own personal power. If something bad were going to happen to her here, it probably would have happened already, but she's never really lost the habit of looking over her shoulders.

"So is that your next ambition, Mr. Mulgin? Political power? Humanitarian ventures? "

A man who's developed a taste for ruling, but still has the conscience of a gang boss... Worrisome thought.

Re: A Most Auspicious Event [Day 3, Late Evening]

Post by Honorordeath » Thu Oct 18, 2018 11:38 pm

Yara Suhr wrote:"That's how nearly all towns happen, Mr. Mulgin," Yara says with all the confident ease a galactic education can furnish. "Demand for labor attracts workers, who all need somewhere to live and more people to provide services to them. Are you telling me Upper Providencetown could really function without all the rest of it?" She shakes her head, lips quirking, a red curl falling over her shoulder. "You could have built a walled fortress and staffed it entirely with droids, I suppose. But that certainly wouldn't be cheaper." Cocking her head a little, she asks, "In any case, wasn't there already a settlement here before the Providence crashed? I remember hearing something about that."

"I don't mean to diminish your work." Yara makes an apologetic sort of gesture, lifting her glass a bit. "Rather the opposite. Governing is harder than doing business, and from the sound of it you've set yourself up to do both." She sips from the glass again with a thoughtful expression. "When you're considering a new sort of business venture I expect you do a certain amount of research, find out how your competitors approach it and what works for them. Did you do the same when you decided to become a town governor?"


"It would function differently, I admit, but yes. Providencetown would be no lesser an achievement had I not allowed the rest of them to build themselves up around my success. I decided to accept the role that was given to me by the people who surrounded me, and I have not sent this town into ruin yet. They have not flocked to their own pastures. So I would say that in fact I have done rather admirably for myself. These sheep that surround me could have been herded together by any other in my position, sold off to slaughter. Instead, I allow wolves to rise out of them. And the sheep that remain are allowed the ability to carry out there lives as they would anywhere else. With the protection that I can afford," he says as he leads her over toward a small booth. One that was cleared when his coming was noticed by the staff. Offering an indication for the woman to sit before him.

"As for the settlement that was here before. They left. Whoever might have still remained from that town gave up on their old lives. Only the scavengers were here when I arrived and I chased them off that they might find their prize elsewhere. Some remained, found new lives that are far more stable, and the town has flourished into something far greater than it ever was."

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