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toplvl2020-10-19 11:26 am
sockhopsolly) wrote in toplvl2020-10-19 11:26 am
Time to Make the Donuts
We're all used to playing our characters in special circumstances--sharing a bath, AUed into a robot, in the rain, lost in the ball pit (well that's one way to get your extra hour)...but how often do we get to actually play our characters doing their day jobs?
This meme is for just that.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Write a starter about your character going about their day at work, wherever that may be.
If your character is a doctor, write them checking in on a patient, or having a meal in the hospital cafeteria. If they're a lawyer, write them at court. If they're a professional ghost-hunter? Yeah, that'd be a pretty neat starter too!
Be sure to include some sort of hook that allows other characters to join in the action, even if your character works alone. Maybe they brought their pile of research out to a cafe? Maybe they need help with something?
2. Respond to other characters' starters. Please tag out if you put a starter up. I know I can't enforce this, but no meme goes anywhere if people don't engage.
3. Thread. Have a good day at work, or perhaps an awful day at work.
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( no insult is had at meeting with the associate; Bruno is not Capo (nevermind his ambitions he carries for the day that the opportunity comes,) but considering their Capo is currently sitting in indefinite incarceration... Bucciarati, being so closely in favor of him, is basically the next best thing.
but he is still merely a soldato, and little more than the rest of his group, primarily by seniority and due to his recruitment of them. they're the last line on the streets — their secrecy can be a quickly-forfeited thing once they actually begin their work. the trade-off is, they do the work.
what Bucciarati learns of Phaedra from this demonstration, is that she's quick to the matter, and extremely pragmatic. Bucciarati doesn't seem dissatisfied, but he nods once, slowly, as if understanding something below the simplicity of her choice.
the waiter bows and leaves them. )
Of course, Signorina Lamb. The matter of this meeting was a good concern to your party.
Rhea Ashfitar, specifically, si? ( Bucciarati takes hold of the wine glass set on his side of the table, bringing it into his proximity and letting it hover below his chin while he continues— ) Pertaining to her entertainment establishment, should I guess?
( they've...never dealt with vampires. mostly because there exist small clutches of vampires within the famiglia, because of course there are. it's a family of the people, knitting Italy's wealthy with her degenerates. no one can simply just buy their way in — you demonstrate yourself, you earn your way in, millionaire or miscreant. and vampires can be...equally formidable as they are susceptible. the key reason why they know of them associated to Ashfitar is because their Capo oversees many industries here, including entertainment. as an eccentric man with brutally bizarre recruitment measures, it's not shocking that he's built a symbiotic relationship with them here on his turf.
Bucciarati tips the glass against his lip while he gives Phaedra the floor. his curiosity is schooled, but present. )
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[The expression on her face makes her distaste clear. While she can defend herself reasonably well, as a vampire, most of the other employees, especially the waitresses and dancers, are completely normal human women.]
We had hoped it might be possible to hire protection from your men for long enough to ensure the safety of our workers and guests.
[To be completely honest, she sort of hopes the mafia will take offense to this gang operating in their territory and will act more definitively than just offering a few men for protection, but that is a lot to ask for. Better to set her sights low to start with.]