Gentlemanvaultboy

Discovery- character development rp

The Baron whipped off his glove, the strange substance blowing off his hand going green in the gathering dark. He pointed his hand at the wolf, fingers splayed and outstretched as even more began to pour out. He inwardly thanked the animal for tossing Miss Claudia clear. The substance began to concentrate and bulge in three places, stretching and squishing until they had ripped themselves faces.

"I'll give you an opening." He said. "Haunt Sign: Hounds of the Wild Hunt." The three concentrated balls of the substance shot off his hand toward the wolf, each one growing and elongating. As they flew their faces got sharper, gaining distinct mouths and teeth. Their eyes narrows. They grew ears. Front paws emerged that batted at the air in front of them, dragging them forward even faster. By the time they flew past Serene each had taken the shape of a ghostly green hound, their back-halves replaced with long and traditionally ghostly tails.

The ghosts hounds sped toward the wolf, aiming to harry the creature and lock down its movement by latching on to any loose bits with their jaws.

Discovery- character development rp

"No, but I can't deny that it exists." The Baron said. He want to look in the crack in the door, but then Miss Claudia stiffened, growled, and darted off around the corner. He didn't hear anything else, but then he roared at something. As curious as he was he took a step back and a peek. Then battle was joined.

"Oh my." He said, pressing himself up against the wall. "Miss is it urgent? Let me rephrase, is it more or less urgent than a wolf in the house?" He peeked back round the corner. There in the dark, lit mostly by the light of the lantern in the hallway now, the two animals faced off. He wondered if he was responsible, not only for the animal but the pervading darkness? "I may have been mistaken before, Detective, there was certainly a wolf in those woods. Did we leave the door open?"

Discovery- character development rp

@Rusalka@Gentlemanvaultboy
'Woah. Um. Ok.' Serene looked down at Claudia's panther-form, surprised. 'I wasn't expecting that...' She turned to the Baron. 'Did you-?'

@Amithea

"Honestly, no." He said, shaking his head. "I've just accepted that the world is so fundamentally mysterious that I can't dismiss the evidence of my senses. For example," he said, "Panther, plus discarded robe at panthers feet, plus no evidence of violence, plus Mr. Jack generally non-hostile posture towards it, plus Miss Claudia's disappearance, plus," he took a big sniff of the air, "the panthers fur is slightly damp and smells of chamomile. Someone who doesn't comprehend how suffused the world is with mystery would see all this and over-complicate things looking for a solution they can bare instead of just accepting the event that they've observed. In this case, that Miss Claudia is now a panther."

"Once you've accepted the impossible whatever you've experienced, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

Discovery- character development rp

"Actually, there might be Oh well okay never mind I guess we're going." He said as he was lead down the hall. "I'm Samuel, by the way. So rude of me not to at least introduce myself, but this is all just so exiting. Sam Wayne, but my friends call me Baron HalloWHOA!"

The panther came into view as they rounded the corner, and The Baron was momentarily taken aback. But then he squinted his eyes at the crumpled robe laying about the things feet. "Miss Claudia?" He asked. He nodded, mostly to himself. "I've seen this movie."

Discovery- character development rp

"Awfully friendly woman, isn't she?" The Baron said, watching Claudia disappear around the corner, leaving his alone with the girl from the conservatory. "Got the right idea too. Better to buddy up in this type of situation. After all, our mysterious host could be lurking around any corner. In fact..." he let his eyes stray conspiratorially to the unopened door set into the wall of the foyer. He lifted his finger to his lips and began to slowly creep over to it, weapon bag under one arm and umbrella raised. "I think..." he continued, punctuating his sentence with every sidelong step,"...they might...be closer..." he rested his hand heavily on the doorknob, raising the umbrella higher, "....than...we...think! HAHA!"

He wrenched the door open and brought the umbrella down inside the opening, beating on the numerous inhabitants hiding in the shadowy space with great vigor. They fell, one by one, before the furious might of his blows. Which wasn't surprising, because they were coats.

The Baron slowly ceased his rampage against fashion as his eyes adjusted to the darkness. He peaked his way around the doorway to check on his buddy. "I've discovered a closet." He said brightly, slipping the point of his umbrella umbrella under the collar of one of the stately Victorian style coats that now lay scattered and crumpled across the narrow floor. He lifted it up to examine. "My size." he said after a moment. He then spotted something else amid the pile and fished that out. It was a long white evening gown, the type a sociable debutante would wear to impress all her friends at the ball. He swept the dress out of the hanger on umbrella tip, holding it at length between himself and the girl, overlaying the dress on top of her and closing one eye. "Yours too, if I'm not mistaken. And I rarely am when it comes to costuming. Hmmmmm." He replaced the dress onto the closet floor then, almost as an afterthought, took the bag of weapons and threw it in roughly among the clothes. A few pineapple grenades bounced out and rolled into the hallway as he piled coats on top of it and shut the door. "There. Now we know where it is in case we need it."

@Amithea

Discovery- character development rp

"Right now?" The Baron replied. "Arms dealing! Can I interest you in a..."he reached back into the bag, rummaging around inside and withdrawing something new, "Cat-of-nine-tails? Really?" He looked over the wicked lash quizzically before opening up the bag and taking a good look inside. "Either Jack has some interesting hobbies or what I did outside has had a very interesting effect on this bag."

Multiverse Rising: Reborn

@Tyki@supertinyking@Wraithblade6

Firebrand tried to put on a brave front after what had just happened, but only made it to the end of Damien's praise before dropping like a freshly severed limb. He managed to land on his feet, but his knees buckled and he collapsed forward onto him hands on the ground. He felt wet all over. He rubbed a hand across his forehead, assuming it would come back covered in blood that was now oozing from his skin in some sort of revenge for his violent rejection. Instead he found something much rarer.

Sweat wasn't normally something that happened to a demon of fire. In a way he wished it was blood. It would have been more reassuring.

The old demon rose back to his feet, pondering the meaning behind the departing gods words. A vampire puppet. That was troubling. Vampires were a high class of devil. Members of that race made up one of the greater demon worlds seven noble families, and were an extremely prideful lot. If one of them had been reduced to a mere puppet...

He shook his head, and finally caught sight of the new arrival. He stepped over to her, a little shakily at first, and looked her over. He hadn't seen anyone else from the air yesterday, but that didn't mean anything for someone human sized. She could have been in one of the buildings, a grove of trees, or simply so far away as to be beyond his sight. "You a native?" He asked.

Discovery- character development rp

The baron looked at the nearest pumpkin and reassuringly pat it on the noggin. "Don't you listen to him. You are a bigger help than you know." He cupped his hands around the makeshift face and stared intently into its flickering eyes. "Always remember how special you are."

The pumpkin seemed like it felt better about itself as The Baron grabbed the entire bag of weapons and followed after his new friend with a spring in his step. "Trick or Treat?" He called out from behind Jack as he kicked the door in. He waited for an answer, but all he got was his own voice echoing back from the nearly empty hall. He grinned as he swept his way into the house past Jack. "Trick then."

He walked forward a bit until he spotted the young women from before wandering the entrance hall. "Young lady? Done with your trance so soon?" He called. "Detective Jack, our mutual friend back there, has invited us all to arm ourselves for protection." He said, opening the duffel bag while moving and beginning to rummage around. "Lets see what we have here...Desert Eagle. Serrated knife. Hunting rifle. Claymore mine! Bear traps. Nunchucks? Bat with nails in. Hatchet. Candlestick." These all clattered to the floor to the floor in a trail behind him as he casually discarded them over his shoulder. Halfway there he pulled out a glowing, smiling jack-o-lantern. "Naughty thing, how did you get in there?" he said, placing it carefully on a hallway table. "Oooo, Walther PPK." He said, drawing the tiny firearm and aiming it at a mirror on the wall. "Very Double O Seven." He placed it on the table beside the lantern. "You know what, half the fun is digging through yourself. Here." He handed off the entire bag over to her on his way passed.

@DriveEMOut@Amithea

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The difference between animal and monster

The only one I could go against is really number two, could you elaborate on this? Also, would you say that monsters cannot be reasoned with?

@Halvtand

Sure. The creature is a malignant force even where it lives. Maybe it's knocking down every tree in its path, or eating so much that the other creatures living in the area can't get enough food for themselves, or its got some sort of potent venom that leaves areas it moves through barren or is seeping into the water supply and making everything sick. The point is its very existence is not healthy for the environment it finds itself in.

Now, you might be wondering what differentiates that from an regular invasive species and there's really nothing. Most of the signs can be found, on an individual basis, even in cases of real world animals. That manticore haunting the woods might be perfectly adapted to its native environment and was just driven over the mountain by something or carted in with a traveling circus. In that case its still an animal. A hungry, confused, and desperate animal that should probably be put down for the good of the area, but still just an animal. That's why these are all just signs. To my mind, yes, the difference is behavioral and with monsters the behavior you're trying to identify is maliciousness. Animal act violently out many things; fear, pain, hunger, a desire to mate, a desire to protect their territory or offspring.

A monster acts violently primarily out of malice and since you can't talk to an animal and ask what it's feeling and why it's doing the things it is all you can do is look for that malice in its behavior and make your own best judgement about what it is you're dealing with. That's also why they can't be reasoned with any more than you could ask a staving tiger to please not eat you. There's no higher thought to their actions. A hungry tiger will eat you because that is the nature of a hungry tiger. A monster will kill you just to see you dead because that is the nature of a monster.