[Sodium_noir] Back to the store/enter a man in black

[eugene mcfadden]

> > > > >John Black, Titus Bane
> > > > >Sorcerer, Vampire
> > > > >Mike's Occult Shop
>
> > Titus shrugged again.  It was a movement he was
> > ideally built for.  ' I
> > thought to myself, I've given you carte blanche, I
> > want to make sure I'm not
> > giving you any golden egg laying geese.  You were
> > handy the other night...
> > but priceless?'
> >
> > He poked around the boxes, not really looking; he
> > was in a time wasting
> > mood, and he knew why. As Khan, there was a lot of
> > shit that needed doing, a
> > lot of ehads to bang tgether, a lot of problems to
> > solve.  He just knew that
> > Yip would have a list a mile long somewhere... but
> > here and now he wanted to
> > just take some time out.
> >
> > Take some time out and deliberatly not think about
> > his earlier actions with
> > that Sugar girl.
> >
> > ' Any cool shit I should know about?  I dunno, porn
> > we can see on, drugs,
> > tactical nuclear devices or equivilent?'
>
>John sighed.  "And of course, you come to this
>conclusion AFTER making the delivery, when
>everything's still packed, rather than search through
>the goods when you had them, making it easier on me."
>
>He scratched his head, looking at the boxes.  "We
>looked through them earlier.  Some artifacts, so
>texts, most of it is from the Orient and not in
>English."  As if the demonstrate, he went to a casket
>just off the side and openned it, pulling out a
>firework with Japnaese writing.  He showed it to
>Titus, glanced at the word and translated it for the
>vampire.
>
>"You're welcome to look through these, but don't clean
>me out.  Some of these items are spoken for, spell
>books mostly, and I'd like to use some of the material
>to restock the store.  Unless you're really interested
>in Tiger's ball bags."
>
>He pulled a book out and flipped it open, paging
>through it.  His eyes went wide, and a smiled crept on
>his lips.  "Sex magic.  I haven't tried some of these
>things in . . ."  He glanced at Titus, "Sorry, won't
>help you."  He tucks the book away, already think of
>what he and Felicia might try out later.
>
>"We've got a samuri sword set, all three swords, too."
>  He draws the katana and the blade seems to dance in
>his hands with a life of its own (Dex 5 - flourish;
>Melee 5 - sword).  He sheaths it with respect and
>places it with its companions.
>
>He looks around, noting what Titus finds, and then
>draws out a notebook with handwritten script in
>Mandarin.  John stops looking at the boxes and begins
>reading.  "Interesting."
>
>OOC:  as long as Titus doesn't make John do all the
>work, he's open and honest about everything,
>translating texts as best he can (he can read Mandarin
>& Japanese).  He lets Titus take what he wants, but
>will insist on keeping the Spell Books for Charlie
>Whitehouse.

Titus picked up the sword with an unexpected respect, drawing it from the 
scabbard and going through a few moves.  He is no where near as expert as 
John, but he does have some vague familiarity (Dex 2+ Melee 3).  He placed 
it back with reverence, shrugging, ' I did some martial arts a while back, 
in the marines. Had four star combat rating...  What's interesting?' He 
turned to peek over John's shoulder, noting that he can't understand a word 
of the manuscript.

Chinese was a language he was going to have to learn.

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