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Post by koenig on Oct 9, 2007 6:29:37 GMT 1
(Staring down at my watch I noted the time. It was 1:45 in the morning on a saturday. I knew that clubs closed around two to three in the morning on weekends since people like to go out drinking and partying. As I continued to walk down the street I pulled out my phone and quickly dialed the number I sought. After a brief conversation with one of the gang members, I turned a corner and looked up at the sign of the club I was about to enter.
Club Legion
Opening the door to the club I walked inside. Looking around the place was semi crowded since lots of people were usually gone home by now, or out to other peoples places. Walking up to the bartender I sat down and smiled to her.)
"I'll have a beer and could you please tell mr. Akimoto that a Bruce Gills is here to see him"
(After getting my beer I sat back and waited for taiku. Taking a long pull of the beer I swallowed and relished the smooth taste as it slid down my throat. It had been a while since I had sat down and had a nice cold beer. I was taking a pretty big gamble on taiku here, depending on where his roles in the school were i could either be gaining a powerful ally i making a powerful enemy.)
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Post by Kazuki Akimoto on Oct 10, 2007 18:50:17 GMT 1
ooc: I'll assume Bruce will approach Taiku, so I'll mod slightly to move things on. Also, short post syndrome time.
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"Tell him yourself...."
Setting the young mans beer down in front of him, the barmaid gestured over to a man who stood with his back to the bar, looking over the crowd with his hands tucked loosely into the pockets of a tailored suit jacket. From the back, with the shortened hair and the dim lighting, he would have been difficult to spot and it was a common thing for the clubs owner to do, slipping down and mingling quietly. However, on occasion it made for good relations with customers who knew him to find him without going through the rigmarole of having him leave office work behind.
The tap on his shoulder brought his head around slowly, the slate-shaded eyes of the owner of Legion pausing a moment on Bruces face as he turned, recognising him and giving a brief smile.
"Was there something I could help you with, Bruce?"
His hands never left his pockets, but as he turned, his posture was so loose that it was clear he had little expectation of anything beyond conversation with the large Senior. To top it off, he made no effort to move to a quieter section of the club, instead content to wait and see exactly what it was this former Varronite wished to speak to him about.
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Post by koenig on Oct 11, 2007 1:14:39 GMT 1
(After the barmaid showed me where he was i smiled. Grabbing my beer I walked over to him. Tapping him on the shoulder I waited respectfully for him to turn. As he turned I bowed my head slightly in respect. Hearing his words I smiled slightly.)
"I sure hope there is taiku. Let us say that I have a few questions for you, your awnsers will determine my next question, and the act i take towards my goal. I was wondering, what are your views on the watchers?"
( then paused to allow my words to sink in and to give him time to think before i continued)
"do you not think they are overdoing anything on macmillians orders. Some of his methods seem too cruel and are getting students seriously injured."
(I said before taking a long sip of my beer and waiting for taikus awnser)
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Post by Kazuki Akimoto on Oct 11, 2007 1:45:24 GMT 1
He allowed the youth to speak and stood in silence as he considered what was being said to him...Despite his best efforts to keep his business to himself, he had fully expected someone to pose this question to him. However, for the brevity of actually posing it, he couldn't deny an answer.
"Of course they're overdoing it, their job is discipline, and they're paid to harm those kids, for their paychecks, do you think any one of them really loses sleep over it?"
It was perhaps a little blunt and more than a little sharp as the remark left his lips, but Bruce would surely realise the futility in such a statement to someone like Taiku, who had walked the halls of Varron and now stood in Hircines. His arms folded over his chest, the much shorter Asian angling his head up to the Senior as he spoke again, a little softer of tone than before.
"My views on them are my own, neither you nor any student should base your reactions against my opinions. People have gotten hurt in the past by going on my thoughts. Next question, Bruce."
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Post by koenig on Oct 11, 2007 7:24:38 GMT 1
(Listening to taikus words I merely nodded as I took another long sip of my beer. Swallowing I thought over my next question before awnsering.)
"I have a different question, one that is based purely on quriousity. I want to know why you became a teacher at hircine. I heard you talk in our class and yea that is a reasonable awnser and reason for becoming a teacher here, but there has to be another motive i never would have thought you to be the type who would enjoy teaching just for the sake of teaching. If you don't mind me asking that is, if you do then i will push no further on the matter.
(I said pausing before taking another small sip of my beer and giving him time to awnser before going into my next qestion.)
"it is apparent that the watchers are overstepping their boundaries, now what would you say if I told you that I am involved with something that wishes to stop this, and something that wants your help. I trust you have heard of the gang revelation? well what I propose is a little alliance so to speak, nothing formal or anything, just a little help from you and your gang when we need it. In return we shall help you when ever you need it. We may be a fairly big gang with skilled fighters in its ranks, but we are not enough to stop the watchers. In this we are looking for some...friendly help from someone who has power and respect from many."
(I said to him before finishing my beer. Placing the empty bottle on the table I continued to watch taiku to see what his reaction to my preposition would be)
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Post by Kazuki Akimoto on Oct 11, 2007 23:18:14 GMT 1
"My motives are my own, Bruce. As I said to you before, I don't share my reasons unless I see a good purpose for it. Don't press that matter, and if I see a need to reveal it, you'll find out in time. As for your involvement with Revelation, yeah, I'm aware. I make it my business to know who runs with whom."
Gesturing for Bruce to walk with him, he stepped away from the noise of the dancefloor and approached the bar to one side, where fewer customers stood. Turning to the taller youth, he spoke quietly and calmly.
"I will make no alliances with anyone. If you're confronting the Watchers, then you're only serving to make things harder for every other student. Not everyone is a fighter, and certainly not everyone can even take the Watchers beatings. If your group thought outside their box, they'd realise that all they're doing at the moment is provoking a dangerous beast."
Glancing to the side as a glass set down on the bar, he picked it up and sipped the water a moment before continuing.
"Look, this is the plain and simple picture of it. Right now, every little group and clique in Hircine has the same base desire. They want rid of the Watchers. Problem is, you all seem to think that you deserve the credit for it in the end, and as such fight alone and fragmented as a group. The students have the potential to beat the Watchers, but as they are now, Legion alone could march in and put every one of you students on your knees. My followers are strong, but I'm the first to admit that even I could only do so much against a faction like the Watchers."
Setting his glass down, he swirled a little of the water in his mouth before swallowing it, "Until the school can put aside their differences, my men will not move. I will remain in my position within Hircine, I will do what I can to assist the students on my own merit, but right now you don't stand a chance, and I won't put people at risk for misguided ideals."
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Post by koenig on Oct 12, 2007 20:28:44 GMT 1
(As I leaned back against the bar I listened to his words. This was something I had expected from taiku, but at least it was worth the try. Turning to him I smiled slightly as he finished.)
"you may be right about some things...but you may also be wrong my friend, do you think the school will ever put away it's differences and come together to face the wachers? No something like that will never happen. Not with people this paranoid of almost everyone already. Yes you may be right about the fact that we don't stand a chance, but even as we speak we are recruiting, and trust me when I say this taiku, we arn't recruiting your run of the mill average people."
(I said with a smile before signalling to the bartender with my hand that I'd take another beer. I then turned back to taiku with the same smile splayed across my lips)
"some of these "recruits" you know quite well, others you don't, but lets save that for another conversation.....I hope you actually plan on doing something here for a change? because soon every student will have the willl beaten out of them. You know this as well as I do. Back at varron you were always involved in the big things always seemed to be helping out when most needed in the big threats, here well I don't know, you seem to be doing well for yourself, with a nice bar lots of money, but Is it that you've completely lost your will to fight? or do you just prefer to watch your old fellow classmates and now students be beaten until they physically can't fight anymore? you know that tyler my closest friend will be next on that list"
(I said to him as I took the beer that was put on the table and took a sip. It was obvious from the tone in my voice that It wasn't meant to offend him or anything, I was just curious, but as the last little bit I spoke of to taiku surfaced my thoughts the anger behind the words was not well hidden, it was plainly obvious that I was pissed at what was happening to kyu.)
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Post by Kazuki Akimoto on Oct 24, 2007 22:45:35 GMT 1
"Yeah, I helped out when I was most needed, and what became of it? The cycle started all over again. Get this through your head, boy, I'm past scrapping in the mud with the squabbles of late, not because I've lost any will to fight, I just came to the realisation that there's only so much I, or anyone, can accomplish with their fists. You all want to bury yourselves by trying to challenge the Watchers as the student body stands now? You'll lose, you know that, right?"
He picked up the aggression in Bruces words quickly, his eyes narrowing slightly at the remark, and he set the glass down before stepping closer to Bruce. The senior had a good few inches of height on him, and he had to tilt his head to glare rather stoicly at him.
"But don't you dare question that I'd let the people around me get hurt because of that. You don't know a damned thing about me, besides the typical rumours of me that are as always quite exaggerated. I'm teaching at Hircine for my own reasons, and if the situation puts me in a place where I need to do something, I will. I just have no desire to be someone elses reinforcement in a brawl that'll do more harm than good."
Setting back a little, his sharper, almost hissed words calming before he sighed a moment. Though he sympathised with the efforts Bruce and his cohorts were making, he stood by his previous point without waivering.
"Gather the students Bruce, if your group can somehow do that, then you stand a chance, and I will reconsider. Until then, you have my answer. I have no intention of exacerbating a situation when there's no chance of victory for the students."
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