House of Cards RP

Little plot thing with Dafydd and Anastasia because I'm insomniac tonight. Anyone else is more than welcome to tag into this as well, post is pretty generic.

She's just out looking for a good spot to write in.

Apparently Victor has taken up matchmaking.

It seems that while Victor and Elisha were swinging swords sparring, Victor was also convincing Adrien to take Elisha to the upcoming ball. He's such a giver, isn't he? Elisha's going to be moved to tears just as soon as he figures out what Victor's up to.

Because these two are moving swiftly in the direction of hatesex love each other so very much.

ETA: It should also be noted that Elisha has a large, blooming bruise in the middle of his face, from an incident involving Victor's head.

I CAN EXPLAIN!

Well, sort of. The short version is that I have no life.

Longer version: I am currently not very employed (bit of a job but it isn't many hours) and my studying takes place at home because I'm preparing to apply for opera college next time it's open for that. Hence, I have a lot of spare time that I have no idea what to do with, hence an obscene amount of posts.

ANYWAY. What is this post, then? Just Anastasia singing a rather dirty song whilst doing pretty much whatever you could think up for her to be doing. I'll roll with any punches. Is she in the shower? Doing Laundry? Out writing again? Practicing her lesson from Victor? So yeah, come bother her if you like.

On the good ship Venus...

So I made a streaking meme. Welllll... Säde isn't going to streak but, y'know, just throwing it out here.

Laps got easier. Someone added obstacles.

So apparently Julien's kept up making Justin run. And now that he's got some reasonable stamina and was getting cocky about the number of laps he could do without falling over out of breath....he got obstacles to jump over, climb through, go around, etc.

Poor kid.

Four for four, I'm on a roll. Victor's also doing random acts of kindness, and everyone can expect a sudden surge of 'niceness' and 'favors' he'll do for them. And yes, this is totally to make just a few people stop and stare.

And to prove a point. :|

[He's slipping dollars into someone's pocket.]

Hello new people! I tried to tag into all of your intro posts, but I really can't keep up... the comm just exploded in the last few days with everyone's crazy high levels of activity. <3 But if I didn't, then Hi! /waves I'm Aleja, and I play Argine here, the Queen of Clubs, Delilah, a soon-to-be-officially-Eight of Spades, and Penny, a Five of Hearts. I'm also going to be playing Marcus, a former-Eight-now-Seven of Spades until his upcoming untimely death.

SO. Return of the Queen! She's been cloistered away in her suite and basically refusing to see anyone since the death of her second husband, Andrew, the former King of Clubs. She appointed a new King and then took an extended leave of absence... but now she's out, touring the castle and grounds, and she's not exactly sure she likes what she sees... (<- My first post with her, post-adoption. I'd really like all the Clubs, at least, to tag in if they can.)

Oh, and I apologize in advance, but tags are going to happen in waves whenever I have time... I'm in my last semester of university, and I may not get to tags more than once or twice a day.

Moving targets. Arrows through the eye.

Julien's doing weapon's practice. On horseback. With a bow.

[Hey, Eileen, look! Human-shaped targets!]

Adrien is all ready for the ball! ... Maybe too ready. Just bug him about the fact that he's carrying more shopping bags then your average girl would, okay? :D

Okay, so I posted only like... four entries ago, but this needed to be posted on its own and it only came up after. See, Alex (Alexander-mun) and I have been having a mini-RP on our own, and along the way it came up that we had fairly differing views on how the Deck works with the outside world.

Alex sees it as having threats outside the deck, "ranging from brigands and neo-Vikings to - for example - a chess piece empire somewhere, isolated from the modern world but accessible and influential to the deck" (which, by the way, I think is a really cool idea), and he's been playing it that way. He also saw it as having "extended boundaries, including other "nations" and bandits in between and whatnot".

Meanwhile, I've been going with "it's sort of isolated from the modern world and few others know about it except those who've left it or are related to people who join it. It probably got attacked in medieval times by those who wanted its resources or a fresh new (albeit tiny) kingdom to rule. Now that it's modern times, they're sort of like the Amish, but richer and less non-electronic.

Any threats they might face would probably be from the government itself, if it knew the Deck existed, or from people who think the Deck is a crazy organisation of some sort. The latter can only come from those who know about the Deck, so we can use hooks like 'person who left the Deck because it's just plain unhealthy' or 'person who hates the Deck because it took away their relative' or something like that."

So yeah, I think we should probably have a more cohesive explanation of the Deck. So just throw in ideas about the Deck that you've had while writing your character(s) and we'll let the mods decide, I guess? I'll edit this post to summarise everyone's ideas.

Beth has been considering her place, and her future. Which leads her to ask important questions.

I've updated the Very Long List of SWS Links.

If there's something I've missed, as usual, please let me know so I can get it fixed. :)

Posted Julien over there, he never got enough hugs as a child.

Note: if you want to play along and put your character in, please post the link to their meme thread as a comment to this post so we don't flood the community (again) with meme posts. :)