I met a traveller from an antique land

[patricide]

Who: Lex and Adrian
What: Great Ozymandias finds a fitting place to stay
Where: The House of Ego
When: Veerdi, a week since their last big chat
Notes: none
Warnings: none

It's not the larger-than-a-doorway pharaoh head that that had been discussed during the decorating process. (Discussions entailing several similar rounds of Adrian bringing up the subject and Lex putting his foot down with a resounding no.) After their agreement it was only fitting that the occasion be marked somehow. While they were still business partners, what was discussed extended far beyond figures and notes. Baedal didn't yet know it, but it housed two men who would not only change the world, but shape it under their own design.

In celebration of this alliance, Adrian will not see a head outside the main doorway. Instead what he will see is a bust seated on a tall rectangular slab of marble inside his own portion of the upper floor. There is no note or object next to the statue, it's simply there as it always should have been. When Adrian returns home he will find Lex practicing his pool shots in his own penthouse.

comeclosercomeclosercomeclosercomecloser

[returntous.livejournal.com]

Who: Mabel, Integra, and possibly her merry gang
What: NIGHTMARES
Where: Mabel's apartment
When: Veerdi (Friday), midday
Notes: Taking place because Mabel has been noticeably AWOL due to horrible nightmares.
Warnings: t-tentacles? And HORRIBLE NIGHTMARES

( ALWAYS SEE YOU )

your childhood home is just powder white bone and you'll never find your way back

[apostatised]

Who: Martel & Anna Demirovna

What: A consultation and a binding.

Where: Hellsing Guild Hall.

When: Sukkardi night.

Warnings: Presently none, but that's subject to change.

'Relevant experience' is the phrase the Princess uses with both Martel and Anna in separate conversations; she says it so delicately that he smiles, faintly, aware of the edge. It isn't the sort of work he generally does for Hellsing, but he can't think of a good reason to refuse and the professional challenge is too much to resist. Innovation drives him, curiosity, and his own pride - of course he can do this, and so of course he will.

He keeps an office at the guild hall, and it's there that he arranges an appointment to meet with Ms Demirovna after nightfall, to suit her schedule. He'll need more details about what, precisely, she wants to achieve here, but he's made a few notes already about spells he's already familiar with and the likely useful elements of each. What he ultimately provides her with won't be half so patchwork as his scattered scrawl implies; this is merely a place to start, and the theory has him already absorbed before she arrives.

100 problems.

[amourpropre]

Who: Lucius Malfoy(?) and Narcissa Malfoy
What: A denizen of Baedal of relative newness evaluates his options and goes with this one.
Where: Sobek Croix
When: Sundown
Notes: None
Warnings: Nnnot yet

It's getting late.

Vague concern of becoming lost in the dense woods, so different than the other neighbourhoods he had seen, is a distant kind of worry and the least of the current concerns that Lucius Malfoy is currently working through. There are spells and enchantments for that sort of thing. There are also things for which there are not any spells and enchantments at all, magical principles dictating that nothing comes from nothing. Everything comes of something. That's actually rather the problem.

Rather than move upon the beaten road, Lucius moves in parallel to it, relying on trees and long shadows to keep him at least partway concealed from those who aren't looking for him to begin with. Boots will become filthy in damp dirt and scratching bramble, but they are also only one of two sets that he's been wearing for the last little while, and most of their polish and what made them fine has long since scrubbed down in scuffs and wear. Fabrics of good make and dark tone don't exactly blend in with his surroundings, but he isn't really counting on this either.

Nor has he ever done this before.

But sometimes he reads.

A Homenum Revelio charm is currently why he is moving with any certainty, the presence of the charm making itself subtly known to the person it detected like a chill, or a predatory shadow over her head.