Meeting thread - Part 2

[forever_jack]

((OOC: As the first thread has got so long - and thanks, guys, for getting so involved! - it seems sensible to start a new thread. Please continue to comment on any of the threads in the first thread too if you want, but Jack will continue the meeting here

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[kingpendragon]

Uther was paying as much attention as he could to the proceedings, wanting to know what he could discover about this place. It was difficult to know when to speak or or what to speak about first, and it was agitating.

"I am Uther Pendragon, king of Camelot and the Lady Morgana's guardian." And father, but he would say that to no one, not even Morgana herself. "I am extremely uneasy in this place, I have a deep distrust and hatred of magic, and have banned it in my kingdom. There are so many strange things here that I often do not know what is magic and what is not."

"The man is not the only vampire present...there is a boy as well. It was strange...he attacked someone because he said he was lacking in something...I am not sure what exactly." he put in about the vampire.

He kept focusing in on Morgana, though,not liking that she was upset, even though he was still uncertain how he felt about Spencer. And he thought something was different about her, but he was unable to determine what it was yet. He sent her a look that said he might want to speak again later on, but did not speak aloud to her right now.

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[longago_buried]

"Think you might mean me." Alexei finally reached his hand up in a gentle manner. "My name is Alexei Romanov. I am a vampire indeed. In my home, Vampires are no longer a secret, so I see no reason why I should stay hidden. I need blood when I am hungry, because I am... sick." He did not wish to say that he would go on a murder rampage not stopping at all unless knocked out or killed.

"Some of you who share the same time as me, might know me as Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. Me and my family got killed when I was 13. My Master saved me and tried to save my sister Maria, but he failed at saving her." All through this his eyes were emotionless and voice flat. "I am very strong and very fast."

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[cptjohnhart]

John pretended not to react at Gray's speaking other then feeling a slight relief at the words 'memory loss'
He leant back, hands behinf his head and one leg propped over the other in a man way, grinning. "Capten John Hart. Former partner og that Dashing man up there." he winked at Jack, snickering a bit.

"First class sharpshooter and swords man with a likeness for big booms and traps. I am good at convincing people and I of course have awesome skills in bed, if anyone would like to try that out. " He gave a wink to Sam, not admitting just how impressed he was with the display of power.

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[wolf_troy]

"I am Troy." The last wolf finally spoke, having returned to his human shape now. "I am a alpha werewolf as you might see. I am of a different pack then the puppy over there." Troys strict blue eyes slid over the others. "I am a agile fighter and I can track most things down, even if the trace is several days back. I can also turn others into a werewolf with a bite, if you are lucky. But I doubt anyone here would wish that willingly." He was tense, moving a bit further away from Sam, as he displayed the 'magic'

"Never sneak up on me unless you wish a very fast death as I do not take lightly to being messed with."

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[major_bummer]

Nobody else seemed to be talking, so Lou figured he might as well say something.

"Uh, so, I'm Lou. Lou Martin. I'm pretty big. Pretty strong. I can chuck cars around an' stuff. Which I guess ain't much next to an angel or whatever," he glanced over at this Marco guy, still a bit uncertain of his claims but certainly willing to entertain them, "but I guess it ain't a contest or whatever."

He ran his hand through his slightly-greasy mop of hair (having slept in and not having the time to shower on his way here), "Also, like I said, I sometimes build contraptions and stuff. Things I don't even really understand or, like, half the time even want or care about. It's part of this whole package of alien crap that got installed in my head. I can do other stuff, too. Understand languages, sometimes, and see ghosts? All sorts of crap I don't want and don't need. But there it is." He paused, considering what this must sound like to a bunch of people with no experience in this kind of thing. People like he had been a few years ago, and dreamed nightly of being again. "Bunch of sci-fi fucking bullshit, I know," he added, somewhat apologetically.

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[unexpected_hart]

"Sci-fi to some, magic to others." Devon responded with a gentle sort of humor. "And then you get the weird ones who know exactly what you are talking about." She was saying 'Really. Don't apologize for yourself.' "Now. When you get into cat people and humanoid trees...you might start losing people." Devon grin, a teasing light coming to her eyes. After all she'd seen both of those and more at the Brothel she'd grown up at. "Good to meet you Lou."

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[purple_manners]

"She's quite right," Zebediah said, nodding and smiling warmly. "Self-pity and effacement like that's beneath elevated folks like you. For whatever reason, you're better than everyone else. Don't feel bad at the fact that you weren't born mentally retarded and crippled, and don't feel bad that you find yourself the better of nine out of ten of the people you meet. God has smiled upon you, my boy. Do what I do. Look up every morning and give him a big thumbs up for picking you up out of the masses and putting you on a higher plane. Be proud."

Turning his attention on some of the lessers he had insinuated in his praise of Lou's gifts, he smiled at them as well. "My name is Zebediah. Am I correct in thinking that none of you have ever heard of me? I've been on TV quite a bit. My skin condition, you know." As an afterthought, since he didn't really feel like clarifying that last point, he addressed the crowd, saying "You would all feel it would be too tremendously awkward to ask me about that, by the way."

In truth, he was wondering if anyone here was aware of his extensive criminal career, the mass murders, and all of that messy business. So far, not one of them had shown the first trace of recognition, which was pretty uncommon, given his notoriety and physical distinctiveness. There was definitely something weird going on here, and he wasn't sure what to make of it.

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[forever_jack]

Okay, that was a lot of people, and a lot to take in. Jack glanced across at Ianto to make sure he was getting all this down, very glad his right hand man had come prepared to make notes.

His eyes widened at the identity of a couple of the residents. So they not only had famous royalty here, but also famous royalty who'd been turned into a vampire! He gazed at the little boy with compassion.

"Mmm, it may be that we're going to have to work out some system for keeping all our resident vampires fed," he said reluctantly. "I don't know how you've all been keeping yourselves going until now and frankly I'm not going to ask, but until recently I've been feeding Isaack myself." There, that was that out in the open at last. He spread his hands with a self-deprecating smile. "I can't keep you all fed by myself, though, so if anyone has any other ideas...?"

He wasn't sure what he expected from anyone else, but he knew for certain this was something he couldn't do all on his own.

"As for the rest, it looks like we've got some really good skills here amongst us. And yeah, please don't put yourselves down, any of you." He smiled at Donna. "Even just being a relatively 'normal' person might come in useful - you might spot things the rest of us who are used to weirdness might miss!"

He glanced then at Zebediah, eyes narrowing slightly at the surge of power he vaguely sensed coming from the man. "Since the people here are from all sorts of different time periods and presumably also parallel universes, it's not that odd that no-one's heard of you. What year are you from, just out of interest?"

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[purple_manners]

"What day is it? Why, it's christmas day, sir!" Zebediah chuckled, smiling from ear to ear. This was getting to be pretty rich. He knew, in theory, about time travel and parallel worlds and all of that jazz. One couldn't have contact with the super-villain community without hearing envious tales of the big guys, like Doom and Kang, crossing worlds and centuries like anyone else would cross the street. It seemed as though he might just be hitting the big time here, and the idea was at once both quietly terrifying and exhilarating. "The last I checked, it was the year of our lord, two thousand and five." he put a finger to his lips, thoughtfully, even as he wore an uncontrollable grin. "Tell me, does the name 'Galactus' mean anything to any of you?" Anyone who hadn't heard the name of the alien monster that had nearly devoured the world a few years back simply wasn't from his world, he reasoned, and that would settle that.

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[blueeye_bitch]

"Well, I've never heard of you, or any 'Galactus'." Nathaniel said with a frown. "And with a tone like that, I would have remembered." And he did not only mean skin tone. Those clothing and that skin did *not* match. His eyes traveled and stayed on Lou, widening in rather impressed manner. The man was a bit bulky for nathaniel's tastes, but he would still look. And look he would.

The kid vampire had no interest of his, so he did not even look at him as he spoke. But when Jack did, however, he finally blinked. "Well, I am not giving any of mine," he crossed his arms. "I dont want any scars."

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[born_of_avalon]

Morgana looked up, eyes wide at the other speaking, her eyes gliding to Alexei, pity in her eyes. He was just a child! She bit her bottom lip and turned to look up at the self proclaimed 'leaders' "What about the past?" she said, sounding a bit hesitant. "I was told there are... camps, cannibals..? Can't the vampires go there to feed? On the cannibals of course. I do not wish the humans to be harmed..." To ask Zebediah about his skin code suddenly felt wrong to her, even thought she had wanted earlier.

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[marco_innocent]

Marco listened, keeping a watchful eye on their purple companion, not quite revealing yet that he could not be controlled by his powers. he looked at Morgana, blinking a bit with a frown, but did not object. "I think you might have misunderstood. Are you sure you do not mean the near future? There is where the cannibals are."

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[forever_jack]

Okay, that grin on Zebediah's face was definitely creepy. Jack couldn't help remembering someone else who grinned like that whilst formulating the most diabolical plans.

"Well, I've lived through 2005," he mused, "and I can't say I've ever heard of Galactus. Must be from different universes."

He nodded in relation to Morgana's question and Marco's correction. "Yeah, the idea of them feeding on the cannibals has come up before - and I suspect some of them must have been doing so, going by the lack of corpses we've come across here. It's not exactly a brilliant solution, but..."

He shrugged, and glanced at Nathaniel. "I wasn't actually proposing just letting any old vampire munch on you, you know. What I was thinking was that maybe Harry could set up some sort of blood bank, whereby those willing could donate some blood in a rather more civilised way, by way of needles and bags."

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[shot_my_shoes]

Harry disliked the idea of feeding the vampires at all, but he could see that it would be better to feed them from willing volunteers than to have them killing people willy-nilly.

"I can do that. And it wouldn't even leave a scar," he added to Nathaniel. "How much do you need?" he asked Alexei. There was only so much blood you could take from one person and if the vampires needed more than that it wouldn't solve the problem.

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[redfive_wizard]

Dairine was very comforted to hear that Jack had been supplying Isaack with blood. Well, not comforted, exactly, since the idea of giving blood to Isaack frankly creeped her out a bit. It made her feel better about giving her own blood to Alexei that one time, though. And now everyone was talking about setting up a blood bank, which was a pretty good idea, if it was feasible.

Still, if Alexei was doing badly, he should have called her. She shot a concerned look at him. She felt a certain connection to the boy-vampire.

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[forever_jack]

Jack nodded, pleased that Harry was on board with the idea despite his obvious qualms. "Thanks, Harry. I'll leave that in your capable hands, then."

He glanced round at the meeting. "Any other questions concerning the residents of the castle? Oh! I know - while we're on the subject of doctors - has anyone seen or heard from the Doctor lately, the Time Lord one?"