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I was born with lightning in my heels | March Catchall

Characters: Pepper Potts, Devin Parker, and you!
Date: Throughout March
Location: Around Aifaran
Situation: Pepper and Devin are getting used to their new jobs. Pepper has an encounter with building materials, goes on patrol, and walks into a bad neighborhood. Devin deals with some personal issues and gets followed around by a pack of inan.
Warnings/Rating: None yet, will add as needed

A. [Pepper] Verdant Sentry - Justice 5 | Open

Pepper has been dutifully studying and basically trying to be the absolute best recruit possible (she may be trying to skip a few steps in this process given her existing skills), and has apparently had a reasonably good impression. They're not letting her run the place yet, but some members of the Sentry have asked her to describe the legal system back home. Apparently, they're intrigued enough that they take her on a few patrols and ask her what police would do, on at least one occasion she's out and about with them wearing the Rescue armor.

B. [Pepper] Sci-Tech 1 | Open

As cool as flying is to get to know the city, it's important to explore on the ground level, too. Pepper is exploring an area where some construction is ongoing. This is normal, for her. New York City almost always had some sort of construction going on, and the scaffolding is a familiar sight. The sudden alarmed yelling as she walks underneath it, however, is new. Before she even has time to properly process what's happening, her ka appears in front of her. The Knight catches the large hammer that threatened to land on Pepper's head, and is shooting an annoyed look at the workmen above them.

C. [Pepper] Crime 1 | Open

Apparently, this is not a great place to wander into. She's on the outskirts of the city as dusk is falling, and Pepper has a very certain sense of being watched and possibly even followed. Perhaps counter to expectation, she is not all that worried. The dagger Solomon gave her is in her boot, Vee is but a thought away, and she's got enough training to be hard to handle. The utter lack of concern on her part appears to have hooked an actual tail, but she doesn't increase her pace.

D. [Devin] Dreaming Bridge | Leo

Most of the time when Devin is not working at the Academy library, he's either in his room or somewhere else quiet where he can read and remain mostly undisturbed. He's not avoiding people per se, but he's not being particularly social, either. The incident with Trahearne and Klaus is still weighing on him. As a result, the vampire is sometimes less antagonistic than he was last month - although sometimes more. Today is one of those days when his roommates are gone long enough that he can have a little peace and quiet, and therefore is probably in a reasonable mood.

E. [Devin] Somewhere Serving Classy Alcohol | Klaus

While Devin can't really afford the amount of alcohol required to get drunk, he does enjoy the flavor of good liquor and isn't opposed to savoring it from time to time. Recent events have certainly been enough to want to take the edge off things, but even if he can't Devin tends to like the atmosphere of older, well-established bars. The lighting is warm, and there's a small booth in a corner that Devin claims so he can see most of the establishment while he sips at a dark, amber-colored drink.

F. [Devin] Metaphysics 3 | Open

He's going to complain to Leo about this. After the young man foisted the cat-like creature on him and refused to take no for an answer, Devin has had to figure out how to be a pet owner. This meant, predictably, a lot of research, and since the inan displays a reasonable amount of intelligence, Devin decides to start training it. He's in one of the city parks working on getting it to come when called when suddenly there's a small pack of the things that seem to want to use Devin as their own personal jungle gym. The vampire is baffled, but he allows the attention and even carefully tries to return it when they let him. One does nip at him, but it's too gentle to break skin, and Devin actually laughs.

(OOC: Let me know if you want a starter or feel free to write your own!)

Threaded | Flat

After her initial conversation with Pepper, Valdis managed to keep her desire to stretch her legs under control. In Keeliai, she had spent far more time as Hound, but the people there had known her and the people here did not. Hila didn't seem concerned when Valdis discussed it with her, patiently listening to her frustrations with Aifaran without offering comment.

It was mid-day when Valdis texted Pepper to meet her at the beach around sunset. There would be fewer people around, so the chances of being seen were slim. She desperately needed to run. She arrived before Pepper, hiding her bag in the bushes and shifting while Hila kept watch.

Leo had been working pretty hard on a project after he'd seen the fight with Devin and Trahearne. He'd yet to track down the sylvari, but to be honest, he knew Devin and his mental state better. And while Klaus was thankfully there to break up the fight, he heard enough of the fight to figure what was going on.

After all, Devin had pretty much tried to do the exact same thing to him, minus the whole attacking part. So he spent the next few days doing something special, and arrived in front of Devin's door with a suspiciously scuffling box.

He knocked. And would keep knocking until the vampire opened the door.

If Conan had been any kind of normal child,he definitely should not have been out at this time of day. If he had anyone in the city right now keeping tabs on him, he would never have been allowed to wander this part of the city.

As it was, there was nothing stopping him from exploring here and so he was.

He vaguely recognizes Pepper, but more importantly recognizes the signs of someone who is being followed and knows it. That was enough to awaken his curiosity to see how this would end (and help out if necessary). He waits long enough to see the shadow, and follows after.

The tail now has a tail.

"H~eh... That's something interesting you got there."

Judai is standing somewhere among the construction, two floors up. (How did he get there? Shhh.) Before any of the workers can finally notice and yell at him though, Judai's jumped down to ground level, taking a surreptitious glance at her left arm.

"How'd you do that?"

Well this is definitely an uncanny valley moment.

Kit gives himself a moment to observe the spectacle from a slight distance, cigarette stuck into the corner of his mouth, before he takes it out, breaths out a whorl of smoke, and ambles closer. He doesn't have much choice about the 'coming closer' part, because his bibiru, already deciding that the inan look like they're having too much fun without it, has decided to hop closer to investigate the playtime.

He stops a few paces back, taps the ash off the end of his cigarette, and cocks his head to the side. "Looks like you're done for, salroka," he declares, and there's the bare bones of an olive branch in his tone, in the slight lift of his eyebrows as he looks at Devin where he lies, besieged by inan.

(Like, obviously the guy is still a prick, but he's a prick who's nice to animals, so that's... something.)

From her perch on the roof, Sheena can see what's happening--and knowing that Pepper once worked for the police in Keeliai--holds off on intervening.

Because she has a feeling the young woman is not only more than capable of dealing with the one following her, but knows he's there by the way she's acting.

So, very quietly and using the cover of the night, the ninja does her own following from above, keeping both parties in her line of vision while seeking for any others who might want to join the party.

After the Fool came to Devin about being assaulted and threatened with a protection racket, he had anticipated a message arranging a time for Devin to meet Fitz. Whatever transpired between Fitz and the Fool threw that plan out the window, so Devin seeks out Fitz on his own. The Fool had mentioned he was working as a gardener, and since Fitz is still living at the Dreaming Bridge, he's not terribly difficult to track down.

Rather than approach Fitz immediately once he finds where his quarry is working, Devin spends a few hours in silent, distant study. He would like to know better who it is that he's dealing with before they speak, and he doesn't care if that gives him an unfair advantage.

Once he discerns that Fitz is done working, Devin sidles up to him with the bare shadow of a smirk on his face; a mask, to see just how easy it is to rile him and then make a point about it. "Fitz? I'd like to have a word," he says without preamble.

He hadn't expected to run into Devin at the pub - he'd just come in for a quick drink and maybe to chat with others depending on how his mood took him - but spotting Devin across the room puts much of that out of his mind.

He should apologize - or at least attempt to. His behaviour that night had really been atrocious.

He approached, calm and with purpose, his hand coming to rest on the back of the seat across from Devin.

"May I join you?" He asked, tone solemn, enough to indicate he wasn't here to start something.

While Tony is not, strictly speaking, employed in what one would call a full-time capacity, he is, you know, intending to get a real job, soon, somewhere. Maybe looking at apartments so he knows how much money he needs to be making is a little backwards from how it's usually done, but whatever. He's getting really sick of living with randomly-assigned roommates. (Not that he has a problem with any of his roommates - it's just not an ideal environment when you're in a long-term relationship.)

Pepper is, of course, delighted by the idea of apartment-shopping, so Tony sets a breakfast date with her to look over the offerings. Even if he's not in a financial position to move out quite yet, it'll be fun.

Threaded | Flat

Pepper | The Beach at Sunset

D.

C If this is all right

B

F!

C

For Fitz

E

G is for Get a fucking job, tony