Politics

[Lylie]

"The Red Rose? I think that place got the can. Umm... I think that its called the Black Adder now. It changed hands. The girl that owned it had to sell out. I think that shes still there though." He pointed in a general derection down the street. A little ways down the street there was a quiet bar. It looked clean enough, Black Adder was lit up in black lights. The door is a wire cage infront of a wooden door.

Shock sang one more song and then told her band to take five. She was getting thirsty again. She stepped off the stage and walked over to the bar. She told the bar tender "Ill have my usual." She sat on the stool and watched the crowed to make sure that everyone was having a good time after the disturbance.

[eunhathes]

(Night Queen's)

Halo watched as Lucine left the club. He would have said something to try and help her see the viewpoint he was seeing the world from, but he had given up on that long ago. Zavia was the same way. Halo sighed and looked at Venon's paper. "Because, Venon, the Third Ward remains seperated from the politics of immortal society. You see, we don't recognize any clans, tribes, guilds, or anything of that sort. We are as independant as it can get." He shrugged and looked at Shock then back to Venon. "As you can see, this is one of those places protected by that neutrality." Halo waited for Venon's next paper message.

[celest]

Lucine walks down the street till she find the place called The Black Adder. She stands before it thinking for a minute. "Well, Rosa invited me to the Red Rose, if this isn't it maybe the can help me find her." She opens up the door and walks in slowly and gracefully, smiling slyly as she walks and looks for a seat at the bar.

[delicriox]

Venon thought about what halo said. he had not seen independents in quite some time. with his pencil he wrote on a piece of paper "I understand now, so now that she is gone what is it that we have to do now? it seems like i can learn a lot from this place, and have fun at the same time. he gave it to halo and then walked over to the bar and wrote " i would like a o+ please" and gave it to the bartender.

[Lylie]

The water returned with Irisi's drink. He sat it down and smiled at her. "Just let me know if there is anything else you need." He turned to go.

The bar tender quorked an eyebrow and got the drink. "There a problem with your voice I take it?" The bartender looked at him and watied for an answer. A few seats down Shock piped in saying "he's mute." She continued to sip on her drink.

[delicriox]

Venon pointed at Shock and noded and then wrote "thanks" on a piece of paper and gave it to him then he downed his drink, put a 5 on the table and walked back to halo.

[ravenstorme]

Irisi flashes a grin at the waiter and starts to enjoy her drink. She scans the bar for familiar faces and finds one. The one with the glasses... I think I saw him at the party. She tunes her hearing in to the table he's sitting at and begins to listen.

[Lylie]

Lucine walks into a decent club. There is a bar with stools at it. They look well maintained. There are tables and chairs. from the looks of it though there is no live music but a jutebox that the Country sound is eminating from.there apears to be a few people here. Mostly it is the workers that you see. It seems to be a slow night.

Irisi can not hear what is being said over at the table because of how far she is sitting from the table. She gets a lot of the noise and conversations from around her table but because of the music and other conversations going on, she can not hear what is being said.

[celest]

Lucine take a seat at the ar and calls over to the tender. "Excuse me, I'm looking for the Red Rose tavern, more specifically i's owner Rosa. It this, or did this used to be it, or was I misinformed."

[eunhathes]

(The Night Queen's)

The Toreador watched as Venon came back from the bar with a drink. Halo smiled inwardly at the novelty of the gesture the bar made in an attempt to satiate their vampiric patrons. However, the gesture was one of affrontery to the hunter in Halo. Why else did th humans congregate together than for one to be chosen by a Kindred. He made a mental shrug and turned his attention to Venon. "As for now, I think you should probably find someplace to start out and get to know the creatures of the night. Take the Night Queen's, for instance." He pointed with his elbow on the table to the door, "Olie, at the door, only allows me to call her that. Maxine is her real name, but until you are familiar with her, call her Max. She's here most every night." He changed his finger direction to the bar, "The bartender, Melinda, isn't Kindred. She's human, but she's not prey." Halo realized his error, and corrected himself, "My bad. That's the off night keep, Alex."

He hesitated, "In the Third Ward, we follow a semblance of a code of ethics. This 'ethics' allows us to maintain our independance. The Kindred don't touch the important humans, those that operate the gathering places. Kine go about their business. The Lupine and Kindred ignore their grudges, although rather difficultly, and the fey simply do their best to harmoniously exist with the rest of us." He summarized the state of the peace in the Third Ward. He pointed towards the stage, "There are people who will be multiple things to you. Shock is both asset and liability. She knows a lot about what happens and, as you've seen, she can have quite the temper." Halo pointed to one of the waitresses running around. "A Lupine formerly of the Garou. She came here to forget something." He raised his finger in the air. "Another rule: Never ask. Everyone is here is for one reason or another. Understand that they want to keep that to themselves. Asking would be rude."

Halo glanced around the bar a little longer. "There are more. You'll learn eventually who is important and who isn't. Any questions, yet?"

[delicriox]

Venon looked at all that Halo pointed to and took in what he said. he held his chin is in his hand and thought. then he wrote on his pad "ok i understand, i will start to meet these people. i will introduce myslef and hopefully, i will get to know them a little better. though that may be a little hard without being able to ask. i understand that the bartender is not food, but i will be looking for one soon. i need to get me a new ghoul, my last one fell apart and is unable to do his work. i am however interested in the lupine. i have always been trying to find someone that will let me examine there body structures, but i know that i would get my face ripped off. i wonder if she would mind...i guess i will have to wait and see." Venon slid the paper to Halo and sat lost in thought about the werewolf physique.

[eunhathes]

(Leaving for Now)

The Sentinel decided that now would be a good time to go make some rounds. He pulled out a Sharpie and jotted down his cel phone number on the paper Venon had just slid his way. "I'm heading out. The rest of this night is yours. Call me the day after tomorrow and we will meet somewhere neutral. If, that is, the higher ups let me take you in." He rose and tossed his cohort a false salute. "I'll catch you around, Venon." He strode out of the Night Queen's. Halo tossed a nod to Olie and stepped past the lengthy line. Entering his car, he breathed a sigh of relief. Shock could be quite a handful, and tonight he hoped he had averted a possible catastrophe.

[delicriox]

Venon noded his head at halo and placed the piece of paper in his pocket. he then proceeded to the lupine waitress and wrote "Hello, may i talk to you" on a piece of paper and gave it to her.

[Lylie]

The bar tender looked celest up and down. "The Red Rose huh? Well this hasn't been that in a long time. A few years infact. Ummm.... whats her name, she works here now..."he stumbles for a moment with trying to remeber the woman's name. "Ahhh hell I can never remeber her name. But she's the one who used to own it. Not too bad looking. She had to sell out a while back. She doesn't like the name so she still calls this place the Red Rose. But anyways is there anything that I can get ya?" He places his rag and the cup he was wipping down.

Shock gets up after Halo leaves and walks over to Delicrux and says "So what do you think of the music?" She gives him a nice smile but he can't see her eyes for the dark sunglasses that she wears. She seems decent looking but would not stand out for them.

Irisi's waiter comes back and askes how her drink is. "So then miss what do you think of your drink?" He smiles at her and waits paitenly for a reply of how it is.

[ravenstorme]

Irisi looks over the waiter again, this time a little more warmly. "Its just fine darling." She responds as she slips him a twenty dollar bill. She waves off any attempt he offers to get change. "I just wish I could find a little interesting company."

[celest]

She smiles at the tender sweetly, "Well thay would explain my misinformation. You said Rosa works here. I'm looking for her, is she here now?"

[eunhathes]

(Driving)

Halo put the car into gear and pulled around the block. He decided to cover the Third Ward in his car. Surveying the realm, Halo could feel the tension of the people here. They knew the new Prince had stepped up and he could tell it. He watched for any happenings and wondered how best to contact Kiki.

[Lylie]

The lupine looks at Venon then at the paper and shakes her head, "Mister I don' know whacha wantin. But I can't read this thing." She hands him back the paper and continues with her job.

Shock seeing that Venon was interested in talking to her, gets up and starts to make rounds at the bar. She goes up to each table asking so how are you doing, is there anything that could be better, is the music fine, and so on.

The waiter smiles as he gets the twenty. He looks around real quick. "Well there is Shock. She is about as interesting as you can get. She practicaly owns the place." He smiles and walks away.

"Rosa? Yeah I guess that would be her name. No shes not working tonight. You see the club down the street is doing something and... well she doesn't get along with the club director. Something about a bad temper. Well I don't know, I've never seen it." He starts to wipe down the counter. "But anyways she doesn't come in when the club down the street is doing this." He shurgs and goes back to wiping the bar down.

((ooc: Halo needs to roll perception.))

[celest]

She smiles nicely at him. "Well, from what I can tell you're lucky not to have seen the bad temper, but any case, so Rosa's not here. Well so much for that. Thanks for the information sweetie. Can you give the message that Lucine was looking for her?" She smiles and gives him a wink. She turns around and walks over to the Jutebox and scrolls through the selections. seeing nothing that catches her interest. She walks back to the door.

"Tell Rosa I'll be back, hon." She walks out and looks down the street. Hmmm, I wonder if Shock has a bad memory to go with that temper. Ah, better not test it tonight. Maybe I'll wait for a open mic night. She starts walking down the street looking at the store front for something interesting to pop out at her heading in the general direction of her apartment.

[delicriox]

Venon gets a little frustrated becuase he can not talk to her if she can not read his writting. he sits there pondering how to get her attention or at least be able to communicate with her. he rubs his chin in heavy thought.