The Ball . . . Or not (Everyone until 5th player welcome!)

[Sarathi]

The setting (for now) is a big old castle in the middle of some extensive woods in an undisclosed world. We can have magic, swords, bows, that kind of thing ^.^

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In the central ballroom of the Grand Castle of the Crystal Kingdom, A large round table had been set up with a feast fit for a king. If there had been a king on the throne. But, as that was not the case, the castle officials wished to hold a grand ball, sending out the invitations via carrier pigeon to the furs that were to be in attendance. Unknown to them, however, only 5 would be invited. The castle had its own plans for them.

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When the huge front doors opened, Sarathi almost jumped out of her fur, her blue eyes huge in her dark facefur and reflecting the light from the many candles, plus the chandelier. She wore a soft blue gown, concealing her many daggers and throwing knives within the folds of the skirt and her bodice. The long, flowing sleeves covered most of her delicate, humanlike handpaws, the intricate parrern of vines seeming to dance as she walked. She wore no shoes, for she preferred to be able to grip the ground with her toes if she needed to make a quick getaway.

"Hello?" There didn't seem to be anyone here besides herself, and she became nervous, reaching up to play with a curl of white headfur; the rest of it was gathered up in a gentle pile on the top of her head, her fluffy black ears flicking to and fro, trying to listen for any other presences. "This is a little creepy," having found noone around, she decided to sit in one of the padded chairs around the dining table.

[Foxy]

(This is my very first RP here, I hope I'Ll do everything right:oops: My English ins't so good, so please forgive:oops:)

Few minutes later a young arctic fox, with long,(almost manelike) silver hair, entered the Hall, his amber colored eyes looking curiously around. His lean body was covered in a shimmering black robe, long enough to almost completly hide his bare feets. Around his waist a broad leather belt, with many pouches hanging from it.

As he noticed Sarathi, he stepped up to her smiling and made a deep bow.
"Good night m'lady, my name is Cale, I reckon we are both guests to this strange party."

[Hakumei]

Hakumei walked though the woods to the castle. She or he it was hard to tell though she seem more feminine in nature. Hakumei is dressed in loose blue silk pants that have a hole for her tail. It is coupled with a long silk oriental coat with a split back with a graceful ghosting of a fox leaping down against a navy twilight background. Her long white hair is loose and flowing behind her a large fan in her hand is closed right now she seems to have no weapons on her. Her face is flater then most fox's and covered in a soft silver her tail sways behind her is silver and white tipped.

Hakumei walks up to the open door moving quietly on her fox feet. Seeing Sarathi playing nerviously with her hair sitting at the dining table she walks on over behind her. She taps the cat on the shoulder with her folded fan "hello there kitty. Not liking the quiet seclusion much I see."

[Hakumei]

<ooc I am sorry for the double post but I took too long in making my first post and in the meantime foxy posted and I didn't see it until after I posted. Idesin told me I can't edit until after the 15 days so to double post and apoligies for it instead. So sorry guys. this is addon to previous post.>

Hakumei then turns to the arctic fox holding out a hand to him "hello to you as well. Cale was it? I am Hakumei."

[Amber Howling]

(What's the time period? Dark ages? The recent discovery of gunpowder? Steampunk? Modern?)

[Hakumei]

<ooc CLP I think from this The setting (for now) is a big old castle in the middle of some extensive woods in an undisclosed world. We can have magic, swords, bows, that kind of thing ^.^
that the time period is fantasy dark ages as there are no guns only swords, daggers, bows and crossbows as well as magic. Hope this helps.>

[Cold Warrior]

((OOC: How about an uninvited guest?))

Damian Doran ran swiftly through the shadows seeming like an infernal wraith as he darted from one hidden spot to another. His crimson eyes gazed up at the imposing image of the large castle before him. He shook his head slowly and cleared all doubt from his mind as he would need all his wits for what was to come. For Damian was an assassin from an acient order known as The Dark Brotherhood. Damian himself was a Komodo standing 5'7'' at 200 pounds and very well toned and in perfect shape. His scales were jet black with a firey red pattern worked in that matched his blood red eyes. Damian wore black leather armor with many latches and other places to hold his weapons. His most favored wepaons was his obsidian katanna he wore directly behind him in his waist so as to be secrely taken hold of and drawn when he wore his cloak, along with throwing knives, glass globes that exploded with various effects, not to mention his poisons he carried for a variety of ways to administer it. He also possesed the vampiric power of Dark Energy but that power was not without it own drawbacks and would only be used if he absolutely had to. All this was hidden under a long black cloak with a hood that hid the komodo's scarred face for in the passage of time the Komodo had become covered in many scars but the worst on was three slash-like scars that ran from his right eye to the bottom of his left cheek. Damian now reached the outer wall and looked about for ant guards that may have been around as he ran his claws slowly over the stone of the wall and managed to find the small cracks to insert his talons into and slowly ascened the wall. As he reached the top and looked around he could see guests at the ball through the windows but was as yet unable to see his target... "Hmmm... I wonder how long this will take?"

[Foxy]

Cale shaked hand with Hakumei
"Yes, my name is Cale, nice to meet you !" he smiled warmly, at the strange new participant. "I think we should sit down and wait, until our Host arives." So Cale sat down and offered the seat between him and Sarathi to Hakumei.

[Sarathi]

((OOC I completely forgot to tell you guys that I'd rather we stick to a Posting order, and so far the order would be Sarathi->Foxy->Hakumei->Cute Little Puppy->Cold Warrior If anyfur is dropping out, please let me know! Otherwise, the RP is #CLOSED#))

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She had been so caught up in her own thoughts that she never noticed there were two new furst in the ballroom with her, and talking to her, no less! Her nerves were so wound up, she automatically reached for a couple of the daggers hidden in her bodice when Hakumei tapped her shoulder with the fam, ready to defend herself. Wait a minute, this is a -ball- it's supposed to be a peaceful event! I think... Slowly, as to not bring attention to them, she slid her daggers back into their slots and folded her handpaws in her lap.

"Hello, and welcome to the ball, I suppose," she gave her warmest smile to both, revealing a set of tiny fangs in her mouth. She could feel two other presences besides the three of them, but she didn't know if they were hostile or not. "My name is Sarathi, though you can call me either Sari or Sai," Hakumei seemed oddly familiar to her, like she had seen her before, but she couldn't quite place where. Sari didn't think too much of it yet, however; besides. . . She wanted to see what the purpose of this ball was.

[Hakumei]

Hakumei nods to Cale releasing his hand after shaking it. She doesn't miss Sarathi's reflex move but doesn't let on about it. She smiles at her "nice to meet you both." she takes the offered seat between Sari and Cale turning it a bit allowing her a view of the entrance to the room though. "Would be nice to meet our so called host who ever he or she is. Though I would have expected the host to be here already to be honest. Guess they like to make an entrance. I wonder how many people where invited to this little party?"

[Foxy]

(ooc) Excuse me, but is this dead? I'm waiting for Cute Little Puppy to post, I think he comes now:neutral:(/ooc)

[Cold Warrior]

((OOC: I agree. Has he dropped out because I'm suppose to post after him and an still waiting.))

[Foxy]

(ooc Cute Little Puppy wasn't active almost a week... can we continue with the play? I'm realy curious what will happen at the party:grin: ooc)

[Hakumei]

(ooc Well cute little puppy never even made a rp post in just a ooc ? one. It might be CLP didn't like the answer and isn't going to play so I say go head and skip. What say you Sari?)

[Sarathi]

(OOC - I say we play without CLP, so let's get the ball rolling! No pun intended. . . The new posting order is now Sarathi->Foxy->Hakumei->Cold Warrior, which means it is Cold's turn to post next)

[Cold Warrior]

The dark assassin looked to his left and right to make sure he would remain unseen as he made a bounding leap and landed silently along the ledge to the building. The guests were just inside conversing and he pressed himself flat to the wall and inched closer to a window so as the now eavesdrop on the conversation being held within.

Damian listened closely to their words and waited to see if the name of his target would ever come up. But since it had been a bit before anyone had arrived he was beginning to think his quarry might not arrive at all. And it that was so then this night had truely been wasted and all his efforts to find out about this place and ball would all be for nothing.

With a slow and precise movement he ppeaked around the corner and saw the three within and looked at each one with practiced expertise and began to determine which if any would pose a threat to his goal. Though Damian was never one t underestimate an opponent and he was sure at least one of them was smart enough to 'sheath their claws' as the expression went.

[Sarathi]

(OOC Do we want any other players? Or would you guys prefer to keep it with just the four of us?)
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Sarathi had been about to attempt an answer about their host when she realized one of the presences she had felt earlier was no longer there. Strange, but not any stranger than this creepy castle... She had been feeling like something was watching her from the first moment she set paw in this place. Unknown to her, there -had- been something watching her, watching all of those present, actually. The presence in the castle was pleased, although there seemed to be some furs missing and it was a little surprised at the uninvited fur. It knew that the assassin's target could not be present, and toyed with the idea of teleporting him out of the premises, but what would be the fun in that? So it allowed him to stay... Who knows, he could add a bit of fun.

"I haven't seen anyone besides us here, so I don't know who our host could be," her stomach gave a small growl and she cursed her decision to skip even a slight snack before going to the castle. Even though there was food on the table, she was slightly reluctant to try it... Poisons were near-nigh undetectable these days. "I guess we could wait for the rest of the guests? It -is- supposed to be a ball, after all, and you can't exactly have one with only fo-three furs in attendance, right?" She bit her tongue a bit at almost revealing the other fur who was somewhere nearby, her eyes flickering to Hakumei and Cale. Why am I so nervous? I feel like I'm trapped alredy...

[Foxy]

Cale smile faded away, as he saw the black cat nervousness. Being a sorcerer, he felt the unwelcoming presence too, but was unsure about it.
Being only an apprentice, (although near at the end of his study,) he wasn't possessing fully all of his magical abilities. To achieve this, the young fox must return to tha Academy, for a final test to get his mage's staff.
But the invitation to a luxurious ball was so tempting, he couldn't resist.

[Hakumei]

Hakumei smiles softly hir hand patting and stroking Sari's head and ears "Calm down little kitty. What will happen will happen and we will all deal with it in our ways. Remember we are not all here by chance. Everything happens for a reason just like what brought us all here. We each had his or her own reason for being here. Even the one who decides to remain hiden has reasons for doing so. Weather it be our host or not."

[Cold Warrior]

Damian's eyes narrowed in extreme distaste. How could they know he was present. He had nly now come near them and hadn't even done anything that could have given away his position. Whatever strange sorcery or trickery they were using to sense him was giving him an uneasy feeling. He thought to himself for a few moments before a grin spread across his face, "Well.... Whatever they are doing to know I am here is about to get a little confused...." With his back now pressed tight against the wall once more a thin trail of thick black smoke poured down from his body and snaked through the air under the veiw of the windows and moved along the side of the building until reaching a balcony and beginning to form into a replica of himself.

Damian chuckled silently to himself, "Heh heh heh.... Lets see if that dulls their senses a bit..." The clone gave a twisted smile as it placed it claws to the stone wall and began to climb uo towards the roof slowly. After but a few minutes it had reached the top and moving to the other side so that it was opposite of Damian as it slid down to the same ledge he wa son. Now if Damian's guess was right his smoke illusion may at least muddle their senses of his presence among them to some degree as both crouched low and continued to watch the ongoings within waiting to see if his target would show. Unknown to him his intended target was not going to arrive.

[Sarathi]

Surprisingly, Hakumei's words actually helped her nerves settle. It may have been hir handpaw stroking her head and ears, but she couldn't be sure, they were relatively sensitive after all. "I suppose, I just don't like the feeling of being watched all the time..." Her fur stands on end for a few seconds as a shiver runs down her body, her senses having picked up something unusual; and it wasn't the being who seemed to enjoy watching everyfur present.

The other fur who she sensed seemed to have become hazy, and then apparently disappeared for a few seconds. When he was back in her range, though, he seemed to be in two places at once, and that split entity confused her enough to disorient her and give her a small sense of vertigo. Her blue eyes clouded over for a bit and a frown turned her lips. That's impossible, no fur can be in two places at once... She dismissed the thought as being ridiculous and told herself that there were just two furs with similar presences at opposite ends of the building.

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The entity of the castle was beginning to get annoyed, since it seemed the other furs it was expecting did not plan on showing up. So it flicked the front doors shut so those present wouldn't even think about using them as an escape. It thought for a second and then shut all the windows too; the entire castle boomed as every possible exit slammed shut and clicked its locks into place. It then turned its attention to the chandelier, telling it to light itself and keep the little imps away from its guests.

There were a few things each fur had to find in the castle, but nofur could find his or her possession without the help of the others. Whether they could figure that out, however, was completely up to them, since nofur had ever seen any of the others. Well. . . If it had lips, it would have frowned; it seemed the young water maiden recognized one, but it mattered not, the game would proceed. "Let's see, little ones, will you figure out the rules? Or be forever trapped within this illusion?"

[Amber Howling]

(OOC: I just wanted to say, sorry I haven't been on in a long time. My computer went down, and I haven't had internet access for, like, three weeks. >.< Even now, I won't be very active, so to preserve the posting order I officially withdraw from this RP.)