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seymourelf in salkia_island

Cross my palm with silver!

Jun 17, 2009 13:14

Who: Seymour and people who show up! [OPEN]

When: At any point during the carnival as is convenient for visitors.

Where: The Festival. Way down at the end of a creepy little row of shops, where the haunted house ends and there are only snack shacks that nobody cares about (caramel-dipped potatoes, deep fried pigs' eyes, fresh beansprout smoothies, ( Read more... )

demyx, seymour guado, byakuran, open, seto kaiba

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Check my attitude? NEVAR! shutupandduelme June 18 2009, 03:59:35 UTC

It had been a couple days since Kaiba's previous wanderings of the Carnival, and he had originally not had any plans to do it again. Of course, that was before he passed by the aisle of odd shops on his way to purchase more coffee. The sign caught his attention, and he stopped, a slight smirk curving on his lips. With everything that had been happening, the CEO had the distinct need to crush someone, and with the Mutt gone, he was severely lacking in easy targets. He hadn't spoken to the man in person at the proper age, but in his NETWORK conversations, it had been entertaining enough. Seymour would do ( ... )

You arrogant ass! You've killed US! seymourelf June 18 2009, 05:55:10 UTC

Seymour's eyes flicked over Kaiba, who he found exceedingly slender, but not unworkably so. Pursing his lips very lightly, he set the top card of his deck face-down onto the table, and looked up at his interlocuter with an expression of most frank and fatal boredom.

"The only questions I am answering today are with respect to fortunes, Kaiba Seto. I have just told yours. Do you want to know about it, or not?"

He set the rest of the deck off to the side, and let his arms sprawl freely at his sides. He was confident of Kaiba's need to know - regardless of the irrelevance of the information. An incurious man does not wander into tents such as this, he reasoned.

Noooo! shutupandduelme June 18 2009, 06:32:15 UTC

The CEO snorted at the very suggestion. "I think my own cards would do a better job of showing my fortune than yours, Priest. Still," he said, sprawling across the chair with the tail of his coat pooling around it, "I have nothing else better to do. And I have already bested fortunetellers with more credentials than you, so this really means nothing."

He shifted in the chair, curving long legs just so, so his whole body position radiated his complete and utter contempt at this whole charade. "Surprise me," he challenged with an intense stare.

seymourelf June 18 2009, 06:51:05 UTC

Seymour responded in a mild tone, "I was unaware that anyone had 'credentials' here, Kaiba."

He turned over the card: on it was a stern woman in fur-trimmed garments, wearing a helmet with long curling horns. In her hands she held a staff, and she looked out from behind thorns over a kingdom of many rivers: hers. A goat knelt at her side.

"The Queen of Pentacles. Womanly fertility, without imagination. You will bear healthy sons, my lord." He said shortly, and with voluptuous sarcasm. It was in fact an exceedingly hilarious card to draw for this particular audience, though no amount of explaining would communicate it to a humorless bastard like Kaiba.

shutupandduelme June 18 2009, 15:43:26 UTC

"How exciting. You'll be the first to know when I start doing that," Kaiba replied as he studied his fingernails out of boredom. "You know, a more creative fortuneteller might have at least tried to tie it in to my company, or at least made an effort to make it sound plausible."

seymourelf June 18 2009, 16:07:36 UTC

He smirked from behind his sleeves at his guest's consternation. If there was anything funnier than this arch little man and his immense pretensions, Seymour wasn't sure what it could be.

"What you have described is called 'cold reading.' It is the source of the charlatanism that you profess to despise." He said at last, draping his arm over the back of the chaise. On his broad bare chest a pendant glittered: a tree ringed by a moon cresent.

"You may go anywhere else in the carnival to get the 'creative' and 'plausible' pack of lies you have requested. I have drawn your card and given you your interpretation; you lack the imagination to make sense of it, but that is exactly what the card foretold. Now," He murmured, leaning forward, wearing a smile whose gentleness was composed of nasty irony. "If you want me to make sense of it for you, then you must pay. It would have been free, but I find that my affection for you is ... unreciprocated. How sad."

shutupandduelme June 18 2009, 16:54:35 UTC

Kaiba scowled at the man's tone, but did not back down, even as the othrer man leaned forward. "Your 'affection' is not something I would give to my worst enemy," he remarked coolly, "but this amuses me. I might be willing to hear your pathetic interpretaton. Your price, sir? Or I could just recoup what you paid for those flowers I threw out the other day."

seymourelf June 18 2009, 17:14:11 UTC

Ignoring the usual brace of childlike insults, he replied, "You are a businessman, are you not? What is business intelligence worth to you?"

Seymour was more interested in learning what Kaiba would pay than he was in the money itself. It was news worth his time just to learn than money was the only kind of payment offered. That will change.He propped his head upon one enormous hand and relaxed back onto the chaise. "This is a card that embodies strength and abundance in practice and potential, but - 'plodding', or perhaps 'pedestrian.' It indicates a relentless reductionist materiality, fruitful in its domain but without the genius to reach beyond that domain. Assuming it refers to your business interests, it indicates material success without innovation. If it touches on your person," Here his tone was disturbingly caressing. "You shall enjoy good health and comfort, but no experiences outside of those you are... already familiar with ( ... )

shutupandduelme June 18 2009, 19:43:35 UTC

The brunet tilted his head, a slight smirk crossing his features. "And that is exactly what I expected to hear," he said, rising to his feet and readjusting his coat absently. "Though I had hoped you might throw in some sort of horrible death at the end. Those sorts of predictions are always much more fun to work with."

Without thinking Kaiba pulled his L337Pod out of his pocket and fiddled with it for a moment, before a soft chime sounded on both his and Seymour's. "For such information as that, I shouldn't pay you a thing," Kaiba said coolly, "but I am feeling generous today. The amount I transfered should be enough to buy yourself a shirt, at least."

seymourelf June 18 2009, 20:06:08 UTC

"You lie, of course. But it is the nature of children to throw away truth and beauty; they cannot recognize either. You came here in order to be right about something, then you asked explicitly for lies, and it is clear now that nothing else would have satisfied you." Seymour smiled blandly.

"You are brittle, Kaiba. And -" He withdrew his L337POD and examined his balances. "Cheap, as well. I will enjoy causing problems for you; I no longer fear that you will be able to do anything about it."

shutupandduelme June 18 2009, 20:46:04 UTC

The CEO went from slightly amused to angry in a heartbeat but the only visible sign was in the tightening of his hands and the tone of his voice. "It is not wise to threaten me, Mr. Guado," he said, putting his L337POD back in his pocket. "You think I would reveal my hand to you? You have no idea of what I am capable of ( ... )

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