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destinystrings2013-09-16 02:53 pm
angryyoungvamp) wrote in destinystrings2013-09-16 02:53 pm
Entry tags:
The Best Intentions
Who: Maugris, open
Where: Sagittarius District (the industrial district), nighttime
What: Vampires have very unique ways to screw up helping someone. Like, say, sudden berserker rages when attempting to stop a mugging.
Warnings: TRIHARDO infection, violence (though I try not to get too graphic).
Sagittarius District, like a lot of industrial districts, offered a lot of warehouses and seldom-watched stockyards and suchlike that offered a wonderful habitat for punks and gangs and suchlike. Muggings were not unknown as a hazard, especially if someone was so foolish as to wander in isolated areas at night. If you happen to be in or near the district tonight in particular, you might come across someone who seems to have just escaped such an incident. But even for someone who's just been mugged, he seems awfully panicked. It takes him a moment to calm down enough to relate what happened.
As it turns out, a handful of thugs had jumped him on his way home from work, and suddenly another guy - some Visitor, probably American - had turned up with a Persona that looked like a knight and declared his intention to stop the mugging right there. The thugs decided they could take a crazy Visitor swinging a sword around, Persona or not, but soon after the fight had started something seemed to snap in the man's head. He'd dropped the sword and lunged at one of the thugs barehanded, punching his arm hard enough to send him spinning halfway across the street, and then he'd turned on his own Persona! That had been about the point where the worker had turned and run for it; he thought he'd heard the thugs doing the same.
Anybody who teases out the location of the incident and thought to follow it - or, alternatively, has the misfortune to wander into the area by accident - will find Maugris and his Persona Malagi in the middle of a heated fight. Malagi's shield is dented in a way that really shouldn't be possible using it against someone fighting with his bare hands, and Maugris's clothes are ripped. In a couple of places he's actually got some nasty cuts, but they aren't bleeding.
It turns out that Maugris, with his slightly off-kilter sense of justice and a sudden burning desire to be helpful, had been patrolling the area with the express intent of stopping any muggings. Unfortunately, a quirk of vampiric nature that Maugris usually keeps well under control decided to force its way to the top, and now the Beast is in control. Malagi probably notices you long before Maugris does and shakes his head frantically, trying to warn you away.
((OOC: So, yeah. Maugris's kind of vampire is subject to something called frenzy, which is essentially an animalistic rage that can trigger when they're angry that forces them to attack the closest target, with preference for living ones. If you try to deal with Maugris, you've got two options - beat him into unconsciousness, or try and talk him down. The latter requires pretty good social skills to pull off; the former can be accomplished the hard way (i.e. bludgeoning him), with something that causes sleep, or with a stake through the heart. Either way, he'll be back in control when he wakes up. He'll calm down after a long enough time, but that will require evading him or standing up to a beating from a superstrong vampire for that long.
... I guess you could use something that cures Berserk, too.))
Where: Sagittarius District (the industrial district), nighttime
What: Vampires have very unique ways to screw up helping someone. Like, say, sudden berserker rages when attempting to stop a mugging.
Warnings: TRIHARDO infection, violence (though I try not to get too graphic).
Sagittarius District, like a lot of industrial districts, offered a lot of warehouses and seldom-watched stockyards and suchlike that offered a wonderful habitat for punks and gangs and suchlike. Muggings were not unknown as a hazard, especially if someone was so foolish as to wander in isolated areas at night. If you happen to be in or near the district tonight in particular, you might come across someone who seems to have just escaped such an incident. But even for someone who's just been mugged, he seems awfully panicked. It takes him a moment to calm down enough to relate what happened.
As it turns out, a handful of thugs had jumped him on his way home from work, and suddenly another guy - some Visitor, probably American - had turned up with a Persona that looked like a knight and declared his intention to stop the mugging right there. The thugs decided they could take a crazy Visitor swinging a sword around, Persona or not, but soon after the fight had started something seemed to snap in the man's head. He'd dropped the sword and lunged at one of the thugs barehanded, punching his arm hard enough to send him spinning halfway across the street, and then he'd turned on his own Persona! That had been about the point where the worker had turned and run for it; he thought he'd heard the thugs doing the same.
Anybody who teases out the location of the incident and thought to follow it - or, alternatively, has the misfortune to wander into the area by accident - will find Maugris and his Persona Malagi in the middle of a heated fight. Malagi's shield is dented in a way that really shouldn't be possible using it against someone fighting with his bare hands, and Maugris's clothes are ripped. In a couple of places he's actually got some nasty cuts, but they aren't bleeding.
It turns out that Maugris, with his slightly off-kilter sense of justice and a sudden burning desire to be helpful, had been patrolling the area with the express intent of stopping any muggings. Unfortunately, a quirk of vampiric nature that Maugris usually keeps well under control decided to force its way to the top, and now the Beast is in control. Malagi probably notices you long before Maugris does and shakes his head frantically, trying to warn you away.
((OOC: So, yeah. Maugris's kind of vampire is subject to something called frenzy, which is essentially an animalistic rage that can trigger when they're angry that forces them to attack the closest target, with preference for living ones. If you try to deal with Maugris, you've got two options - beat him into unconsciousness, or try and talk him down. The latter requires pretty good social skills to pull off; the former can be accomplished the hard way (i.e. bludgeoning him), with something that causes sleep, or with a stake through the heart. Either way, he'll be back in control when he wakes up. He'll calm down after a long enough time, but that will require evading him or standing up to a beating from a superstrong vampire for that long.
... I guess you could use something that cures Berserk, too.))
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He pauses here, wondering vaguely whether Otoha's going to need that clarified.
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"... A what?"
Yep.
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He sighs and shrugs his shoulders. "I'm also not quite so pathetic in a fight when I'm not too berserk to use it. Or a sword. Speaking of which, you didn't pick mine up, did you?"
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Magic? Huh. Not something he knows a whole lot about.
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"Yeah. You know how some vampires in stories are really fast, or incredibly tough, or control animals? Yeah, not me. I get magic and enhanced senses instead." Well, that and mind control, but he doesn't personally know how to do it and wouldn't like to use it often if he did.
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He's still not entirely sure that Maugris is okay - but he also doesn't want to stick around where he'll just get underfoot. He's got other places to patrol anyway.
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This is in fact an outright lie - though it does take a lot of provocation - but it's mostly an attempt to get Otoha off his back.
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He pulls himself up and stretches a bit, before tucking his hands into his pockets.
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"If you could let me know where we are from the scene, that'd be great, thanks." He doesn't really want to try combing the entire district.
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Hey, efficiency works.
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Efficiency does work. And Maugris really doesn't want to lose that sword - cold-forged iron swords are kind of a pain to get more of. He nods to Otoha and starts to head out.