Catch-up Coffee

[vVv]

victor heard very little of what henry said, as her eyes glazed over and she stared off into space with a little half-smile on her face. she spilled coffee down her chin as she sipped it without looking, didn't seem to notice. put a hand up to support her head, recoiled, then wiped her face with a sleeve and settled her chin to rest on one hand finally, sighing wistfully and absently chewing.

victor swallowed. "i even got to stand next to him..," she breathed, and then straightened up with a start, looking around to see if anyone had noticed her daydreaming. hey, it was just as important as whatever professor gondorf was saying, she was sure.

[Tesla]

The Professor ambles by with his flask in hand.
Stopping, he takes a sip, grimaces and cocks his head to the side, listening to the exchange.
He reaches into his pocket and gives Victor a chocolate mouse, smiles a huge grin at Henry, staring straight through him and then ambles off towards the porch

[kimp]

:: Liberty comes back from the direction of the kitchen carrying two cups of water and sits back on her stool. As if she was never gone she says to Victor ::
Flo's coffee is barely above brown water.

:: She then props the plastic cup apparatus on top of the ceramic cup, pulls a filter from the bag and places it in the plastic cup, measures out coffee grounds and puts them in the filter, and pours water over them slowly. There is the hint of a ritual in the motions, measured and precise. Once satisfied, she looks over to Henry ::

It's interesting you asked me about Tulpa the other night as shortly after that I believe we met one.
:: She cocks her head, then adds ::
Or more

:: She turns her attention to Madrigus ::
The stories written on the typewriter are coming to life and moving among us. Very disturbing.

:: That said she goes back to slowly pouring water over the coffee grounds until it is all poured, then she looks back at Madrigus ::
Were you part of the round-robin story we initially wrote or did you write your own story which I understand happened the second time Mr. North showed up?

[Madrigus]

"The round robin story. I think my line was something about a factory dumping toxic waste into a river or lake." He frowned. "I had wanted to get in on writing my own story, but I hadn't had the time."

His new coffee arrived and he managed to order a piece of pie along with several eggs.

[kaiserin]

(Just walking by Hana see's Victor's chocolate mouse)

Ohhh! Gadget and the others should totally make those! Only cheese!

(Calling out as she goes to intercept Leslie across the hall)

Leslie! I have a great idea!

(Off she goes)

[Henry Gondorf]

Henry shook off the feeling of footsteps over his grave. Such things were happening far to often to let them bother him too much these days.

He turned to Liberty with a smile. "Yeah, you know how the saying goes: Get enough monkeys in a room on typewriters and one of them gonna pop out Shakespeare. Or in this case, Edger Allen Poe."

"And you might want to double down on that coffee creamer there. This ride is only just starting to build up steam."

He motions towards Victor. " As you can see our Victor here is all grown up. Just be careful around her with the metal bits. Matters with the Courts are on the rise. Balor is silent for now but the word is that war has come to those on both sides of the fence. The day is coming where we're gonna have to go deep into this war and slam on the breaks. Otherwise we're in for another Ice Age."

[vVv]

victor's eyes lit up. "i'm like a cat!" she exclaimed, and promptly gnawed the mouse's head off. she watched the professor's back with admiration.

she was sorely tempted to chase hana, as an idea involving both her and leslie was absolutely guaranteed to be a good one, but gondorf's words captured her attention.

"another ice age..," she blinked slowly, as if waking up, turning her thoughts from whatever track they'd been on to the matter at hand. "worse than that. and even i know that would be no good. these guys are.. i think nature would just go away. that's what i think. no summer. no winter. no spring or fall. no humans. no demons. no fey or anything else. just black. nothing. that's it."

she looked terribly sad, an emotion that looked sort of odd on victor, and it only enhanced the ebbing and flowing effect of unfamiliarity wrought in her changed features.

then her teeth sparkled again, eyes half shut in the smug fashion of a cat, reinforced by the end of a mouse-rump and tail hanging from her mouth. she was unmistakably the victor jones they knew and (if they were smart) loved.

"typewriter guy! yeh, that was neat. i wrote a story too.."

she trailed off, thinking. "i wonder if me and leslie are gonna get a million dollars? we really need that money for the awesome party we're gonna have, you guys can come."

[Madrigus]

Madrigus squinted while he attempted to follow Victor's thought train, and gave up, decided that Henry was right about his "creamer," and poured another healthy dose into the new coffee. He also failed at his attempt to not watch her whimsical way of eating the chocolate mouse.

"I was going to say, 'an Ice Age' doesn't affect me much,' but Victor's right. This war here on Earth is only the beginning. Once Balor wins here and destroys everything, he'll find his way into other planes. And technically we are already deep in this war; we're the ones who let Balor out in the first place. Yes it was Moggie's idea, but we let it happen. All of us just blindly figured that one little thing would help solve our problems, and nobody wanted to look into it.

"Well, I did, but nobody would hand over one of those flowers. I had attempted to sneak off with one back when they were being picked so I could examine it and hold off the ceremony until I knew a bit more about what was going on, but nobody let me see one. If they had we wouldn't be in this problem, and I blame myself for not being more insistent." Damn, he was getting a little too loose-jawed for comfort. Oh, well.

He sighed and stared gloomily at his plate of cherry pie and eggs. "Anything else interesting happen?"

[vVv]

chewing the last of the chocolate rodent's corpse from around its ribbon tail, victor's eyes followed professor challenger's form as he lightly waltzed out onto the back porch. "man, he sure is cooler since he got possessed by that crow.." she mused to herself.

she shook her head, the shock of blue &white hair that framed one side of her face whipping back and forth.

"i still don't know what the hell it is that happened before i moved here that's got everyone so worked up about the fey. except that slicewick maimed a bunch of people and threw them in a puddle," she smirked, eyes shining, "but really, gmarrok, what's up with the flowers?"

[kimp]

:: Liberty shifts the filter to the top of the empty water cups, dumps milk and sugar into the brewed coffee, stirs then takes a sip. Then she turns to Madrigus ::

They found some odd symbols in the subbasement of the power plant. Symbols in circles. Some people are trying to find a pattern or a message in them. You might want to get in on that.

Apparently some entity, or maybe Momma Bug, made its home down there and some people think these symbols are a message from her. I question if, instead, it could be some form of containment for her... it.

:: she shakes her head subtly in the negative, then takes another sip of coffee ::