i've got something to tell you i've got news for you
[21:57] * Rayne is not really in a much better mood than yesterday, but there will be no hysterical cackling, at least. Also, he's fully clothed, unless you feel "fully" clothed has to involve shoes.
[21:58] Maria: "They may, sadly--hi, Ethan!"
[21:58] * Brody does not feel this way, and waves! "Hi!"
[21:58] * Brody steadfastly denies the existence of boys.
[21:58] * Rayne tips his INVISIBLE HAT.
[21:59] * Brody erases something and redraws it. Meh.
[22:05] Maria: "How's it going?" This is threaded with some genuine concern. Yesterday was a bad day for Ethan!
[22:10] * Rayne doesn't want to think about yesterday.............or tonight, actually, after the awesome conversation with Thorn about an hour, two hours ago. "As it ever does, my dear," which is a ridiculous thing for HIM of all people to say and he clearly knows it. :>
[22:13] Maria: "Uh huh." SKEPTICISM, Ethan.
[22:17] Rayne: "Don't take that tone with me," he says, irritably.
[22:18] * Maria stares at him.
[22:18] Brody: "She will take that tone with you and you will LIKE IT," he chimes in. :D?
[22:18] * Maria thinks he sounded EXACTLY LIKE someone's dad just there, apparently hers.
[22:19] * Maria grins at Brody.
[22:20] Rayne: "There's more truth in that people-to-frogs bollocks than we usually let on," Ethan tells Brody, mockingly ominous (it is not clear who or what is being mocked here, but that's not unusual).
[22:21] Maria: "Oh, please," she says, dismissively, "So vulgar." One may get that she doesn't mean 'vulgar' in the typical sense there, because Verbena and WoD witches have their own weird language.
[22:22] Brody: "I am so not scared of your empty froggy threats." He sticks out his tongue, being the mature young adult that he is.
[22:22] Rayne: "Bibbity-bobbity-boo," Ethan says, dryly, although obviously /that/ wasn't what produced the frog on Brody's shoulder.
[22:23] * Rayne goes to look for something non-alcoholic to drink. For ONCE.
[22:23] Brody: Aah! There is a frog. Good thing he's not a twelve-year-old girl ... usually. He does startle. "Heeeeey!" ...aw, but it's kinda cute.
[22:23] Maria: "Aw." Maria likes frogs. :3
[22:24] * Rayne 's frog does not make a frog noise, it actually goes 'ribbit'. Just like that.
[22:25] * Brody picks it up and puts it on his sketchbook. So it can, I dunno, poop on his drawings of bears in hats on unicycles. He grins.
[22:28] Maria: "We should name it." Yes? No?
[22:28] Brody: "Something with 'Professor' in it."
[22:38] Maria: "Professor Rayne?" She's totally expecting to get smacked.
[22:39] * Rayne yanks Maria's hair. Despite being on the other side of the room with his back to them and ostensibly not listening.
[22:39] * Maria winces. "Watch it, Ethan."
[22:40] Rayne: "Hmm?" Nobody buys it, Ethan.
[22:40] Brody: "Professor Hoppity Von Rayne, PHD in flyology." This is serious business. He pats the frog lightly.
[22:40] Rayne: Professor Hoppity ribbits again.
[22:40] * Brody goes :D a little. Or a lot.
[22:41] * Maria approves of this name, and ignores Ethan if he's going to be like that, then. "Brilliant. He approves."
[22:42] Brody: "As he SHOULD. He is a professor, and has good taste." God knows what B would have named those Darklings, had they stuck around.
[22:49] * Maria sneaks a look at Ethan over her shoulder. Wtf, sir. "He needs a monacle. ...I think that's what they're called."
[22:50] * Brody digs around in his pocket for a paper clip or something...
[22:51] * Rayne has GINGER BEER. What. Why is he being looked at.
[22:53] * Brody finds nothing. Oh well, no monocle for the Professor.
[22:53] Brody: "I'm sure I have a tiny hat somewhere."
[22:54] Maria: "Why do you--well okay." She's not going to question what is clearly fate leading hats to small frogs, okay.
[22:55] Brody: "Well. I have a lot of leftover fabric. Tiny outfits ensue." >_>
[22:57] * Maria looks at Professor Hoppity. "I don't think he'd submit to being put in a tiny tweed jacket. Which is sad."
[22:58] * Rayne chokes on his ginger beer at 'tweed'. With laughter.
[22:58] * Brody ... has to wonder what a frog-shaped jacket would look like, and doodles a couple variations.
[22:59] Brody: "IIiiii think he'd look dashing."
[22:59] Maria: "Would it impair his hopping, though?"
[23:00] Brody: "I can't see why it would..." He nudges the Professor.
[23:02] Maria: "Well, then, why not?" HAHA that poor frog.
[23:03] Brody: "Sorry little guy," he tells it, "it's now your role in life to be tarted up by two crazy people who think frogs should wear pants."
[23:03] Maria: "He's lucky we decided he's a boy frog."
[23:03] Rayne: Professor Hoppity von Rayne, PhD, has something to say. "Get out of here now."
[23:03] Maria: ...
[23:03] * Maria stares at the frog.
[23:04] Brody: "...That was creepy."
[23:04] * Rayne sips his ginger beer. Innocently. Hoppity ribbits.
[23:04] * Maria turns around and regards Ethan. "I don't know if you noticed, but the frog just spoke. Bossily."
[23:04] Maria: "...in an English accent."
[23:04] Rayne: "You know, I did hear."
[23:05] * Brody nudges it a few more times, hoping it talks again. :3?
[23:05] * Brody clearly suffers from Poke-it-with-sticks-itis, a syndrome that affects 1 out of every 3 boys.
[23:06] Rayne: "It can't be!"
[23:06] Rayne: - says Hoppity.
[23:06] Brody: :O! "Butter?" Brody asks.
[23:06] Brody: ............why is he talking to a frog, plz.
[23:06] Rayne: Hoppity goes B| inasmuch as a frog can. "I thought I told you to leave town."
[23:07] Brody: "Why, is it not safe? Is it bat country?" Brody might be internally loling a little.
[23:07] * Maria is laughing externally, dude. "What did you do to that poor frog, Ethan?"
[23:08] * Brody is having a Very Serious conversation here, okay.
[23:08] Rayne: "I made it." :3
[23:11] * Jackie` wanders in, for once not in the midst of crisis -- or gun battles, amazingly enough. Nope, he's just tired and... kind of damp, because he just got out of the shower. He's dressed, at least, in pinstripe black pants, barefoot and buttoning up a white shirt. And this? Definitely not his living room. Unexpected Nexus attack, as per usual.
[23:12] * Maria gets up immediately. "Jackie, hey." He looks...marginally better. Less battle residue.
[23:12] Brody: "Hi Jackie!" La la, playing with his frog!
[23:13] Jackie`: "Hey, hi." Pause, headtilt. "... Is that a frog?"
[23:14] Rayne: "Kind of."
[23:14] Brody: "His name is Professor Hoppity von Rayne, PhD and he is English."
[23:14] * Brody says this as if he's introducing someone new.
[23:15] Jackie`: "English? He croaks with an accent, or somethin'?"
[23:15] * Maria gives Jackie a hug hello, because she is, as always, worried about him. "He talks."
[23:17] * Jackie` hugs back. "He... talks." Estacado, your soul was just pretty much consumed by Eldritch spiritthing, try not to sound so skeptical about a talking frog.
[23:18] * Brody nudges the Professor for a demonstration.
[23:18] * Brody fully expects to be bitten at some point.
[23:19] Rayne: "Primarily the division of self. Male and female, light and dark." says von Rayne.
[23:19] * Rayne murmurs 'chunky and creamy' to himself over his ginger beer. :3
[23:19] * Brody *beams*.
[23:20] * Jackie` stares. "... Holy fuck, it /does/ talk."
[23:20] Rayne: "I'm just surprised I didn't guess it was you," the professor adds.
[23:21] Jackie`: "You didn't.... what." He eyes it suspiciously. Very suspiciously!
[23:21] * Jackie` has history with frogs, okay. He's a tiny bit paranoid.
[23:21] Brody: "He might, actually, be some sort of detective instead," Brody muses.
[23:21] Maria: "And so eloquently." This is hilarious, okay. "I don't think it says anything relevant; it's sort of like one of those wind-up toys that talk. But real."
[23:22] Rayne: "Tell me how to stop the spell." Hoppity has the best froggy B|
[23:22] * Brody puts his head down on the bar and follows Hoppity doing ... froggish things with his eyes.
[23:23] * Jackie` looks incredibly relieved, for some reason. Hoppity is not some sort of magic frog king out for revenge on Jackie, good. "... Oh." So longwinded, this guy.
[23:23] Rayne: "You outgrew that look thirty years ago." Hoppity has OPINIONS, apparently.
[23:24] Brody: "He's a man of fashion."
[23:24] * Jackie` moves to get a closer look at Hoppity, there. "Apparently."
[23:24] Rayne: "Fuck off." ...Hoppity!
[23:24] * Maria settles down on the sofa. "My!"
[23:25] * Brody looks scandalized! "And *cranky*."
[23:26] * Jackie` laughs a little. "... There's language I understand."
[23:26] Rayne: "You have an odd way of striking up conversation."
[23:26] Brody: "Professor, I think you need to take a nap." This is not going to stop him from poking him more.
[23:27] Maria: "You're going to get mauled by an angry frog, you realize." She beckons Jackie over. Come here, Estacado, Maria wants to make sure you're not any /more/ damaged.
[23:29] Rayne: "And that's ever stopped you before?" Same voice, but younger and the accent is rougher.
[23:30] Brody: "Clearly not," he says cheerfully. Okay, he'll stop poking. Petting instead?
[23:30] Rayne: "And when did it become 'just you'?"
[23:30] Rayne: ...he also appears to like the petting.
[23:32] Brody: "Professor Hoppity sounds like a frog who's been through a difficult break-up. I'll drink to that." Pet pet pet. Oh lord, he's named it and bonded with it.
[23:32] * Rayne coughs on a laugh.
[23:32] * Jackie` does! He's physically unharmed, but taking a look at him with magic might not be the best idea at the moment. The Darkness is... quite a lot stronger and pretty much intrinsically part of him, now. Fantastic. Only not.
[23:35] * Maria can get that vibe even without really looking. "What happened?" She keeps her voice low, but doesn't hide that she's asking Jackie Important Questions from the others.
[23:35] * Brody hopes his sister doesn't hate frogs, because he's totally not letting it go now.
[23:36] Rayne: "It makes me look like a poof," Hoppity complains.
[23:36] * Jackie` 's voice is as soft as ever. There's very little that could get him to raise it, really. "I did what I had to do." That's... not an answer, Jackie.
[23:36] Brody: "Oh, Professor. Nothing *made* you look that way."
[23:38] * Maria regards Jackie carefully for a moment. "And what does that mean?"
[23:41] * Jackie` killed a shitload of people, and let the Darkness consume him, more or less. He's not going to say /that/, though. "... I took care of my problem. Got some sleep, too." He's Mafia, for fuck's sake, he can turn not directly answering questions into some weird science.
[23:42] Rayne: "It's six in the fucking /morning/," Hoppity says, waspishly, although after a quick watch check, Ethan is disappointed to discover he picked it out twenty minutes early.
[23:43] * Maria sets her jaw and stares at Jackie. He may be getting the impression she is not very keen on evasiveness. "I'm glad you got some sleep." This is true. "Very nearly, Professor."
[23:43] * Brody lols more, and also realizes it is in fact rather late/early. And he should go to bed, he has to look for his sister more tomorrow. He sighs and sits up. :/
[23:45] * Jackie` nods, and goes to settle on the couch. He got... three hours sleep, but that's something, right? Ftlog, Jackie.
[23:49] * Rayne leans against the bar.
[23:50] Maria: "We all just realized how late it is, huh."
[23:50] * Maria breaks your little silences in half, Stigmata. B|
[23:50] Rayne: "Not late enough."
[23:50] Jackie`: "Late, early, same difference."
[23:50] Brody: "I gotta go, stuff to do. ...Does anyone mind if I keep the frog." >___>
[23:51] Rayne: "My gift to you."
[23:51] * Brody beams! "Thank you!"
[23:52] * Maria fully expects to see the frog in full on Sherlock Holmes regalia next time it's here. "Be good, Brody." ...haha.
[23:52] * Jackie` waves, a little. "'Bye. Stay outta trouble, kid." Listen to the murderous monsterthing guy, srsly.
[23:53] Brody: "Am I ever *not*? ...Don't answer that." He picks up the frog and his notebook, wave, and skedaddle!
[23:55] Maria: "I can't believe you gave him a talking frog, Ethan."
[23:56] Rayne: "What? Why not?"
[23:56] * Maria just laughs. "I'd get in so much trouble for that back home."
[23:57] Rayne: "For a silly little toy? How dull."
[00:01] Maria: "Just how it works, I guess!" She stretches her legs out in front of her, slipping her shoes off. It is irrelevant that her socks have snowmen on them, but we're noting it anyway.
[00:02] Rayne: "There's no one to scold me." He smiles, or his teeth are visible, anyway.