Karaoke at the Salty Scrub [Open]

[Saskia]

HP 100% | MP 100%

Guardian - Cavalier - Brewer

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Saskia shifted her gaze to the sight of a boy with a rich golden mane and soft angelic features rise up to take the stand. He seemed to be quite optomisitic and energetic, despite his nervousness. She began to squint at him, thinking it was a bit crazy seeing an adolescent child in a bar full of grown women and men, however, from her experience with the child-like sorcerer, Nu, who was from the Aeryn guild.

“Is that...Fubuki up there?” The pink haired bartender as she squinted to get a closer look. “ I wonder what song he’s going to sing.” She muttered the last few words before turning her head back to smile at the dark skinned woman.

“Brazilian? Oh wow. That’s pretty fun. I never been to Brazil, but I have seen some of the dancers over there. They are amazing!” Saskia grinned enthusiatically. “ And I bet the beaches are so wonderful. I have not been, but I have been to beaches in Spain.”

She met few darkskinned people outside of the African and Jamaican immigrants that would come to the UK for school. She appreciated the diversity and culture of each persons heritage.

“A Duet you say? Well, well I don’t know any brazilian or Latin Pop songs, but I got the perfect spicy song in mind. Have you ever heard the song “Can’t remember to forget you” by Shakira and Rihanna?” Saskia smirked. “It’s an song from just a few years ago, but a really pretty one.”

“Let me just talk to Shuwen and let him know he can cover for me for a few.” Saskia smiled as she walked over and approached the monk.

“Hey, Shuwen, mind overing for me? I can get you a break right after if you want.” she grinned politely, offering reciprocation for the favor.

Fubuki cheerfully walked over to the bar, which for a quick second almost made her think they were a hair away from getting fired. “Hey Shuwen, you mind taking this order? I’m going to go upstage with Sunny.” Saskia yelled as she turned her head to call to him.

Once she turned back she noticed Professor Tessia skulk over towards Piper and asked to speak to her.

“Hm...what happened Professor Tessia, is Piper in trouble? Don’t tell me she spilled acids in the lab...” Saskia grimaced at the thoughts of what chaos could have insued at the Academy.

Saskia was even more surprised when Piper mention a rather drunken outburst.

“Well, that’s certainly provocative....Professor Tessia, I’m sure you are aware of the academy’s fraternization policy. As should you be, Piper.”

Saskia tone was a authorative one and seemed as if it were going to hold consequnces as she leaned over with a scolding and scrutinizing gaze at the duo before muttering her next few words that would cut like a knife.

“There are none!” She shifted her face into a bright and bubbly smile bursting into a light chuckle as she raised up and held her side.

She prepared herself a fruity alcoholic drink and took a few subtle sips to unwind since she was on break. Normally, a bartender wouldn’t be able to do this, but with her [Detox] ability. She wouldn’t have to worry much.

“Alright, you ready Sunny?” Saskia smiled as she walked up away from the bar and took up the stage alonside

She stepped up in her bartender outfit alongside the Brazilian Swashbuckler and gave her a confident gaze. The song came on the track and the assortment of tantalizing hip-hop music was starting to play filling the atmosphere with an energetic atmosphere. It started of with a nice tropical upbeat as Saskia began to strut forward as her heels clicked on the stage and she added a splash of sensuality while she swayed her hips and rocked her shoulders to the music and her slinger fingernails cradled the mic and she began to sing in a seductively alluring tongue that enticed the mind.

As she sang, her pearly white teeth were revealed in a gleeful angelic smile as her cheeks flushed a light intoxicating shade of pink. She twirled her fingers in a graceful way as she weaved a pattern of lust and passion in the air as she seemed to be painting the wave of emotions in a sensually electrifying intricate dance.

Her cherry blossom pink petals of hair, flowed brilliantly as she whipped her luscious pink in a captivating motion. Her light pink coat of lipstick highlighted her facial features even more. Her pretty pink eyebrow arched up with a promiscuous grin as she strutted majestically across the stage.

“I can’t remember to forget..I keep forgetting I should let you go.. “ She pursed her soft lips together and started singing in a hearftul and wondrous tone as she burst into a outfit that made her look like a Cotton Candy Princess as she set the stage on fire with an exotic flair. “ But when you look at me, my only memory, is us kissing in the moonlight...OOOOooooooOOOOOoooo!”

She batted her eyes tenderly as she kept beaming with delight and strutting her well-toned legs across the stage in a artful dance as the two virtuosos perform. Occasionally, she would playful dance with Sunny and have a confident enthusiasm as the crowd began to watch in amazement, enthralled by the stunning performance.

One could easily tell that Saskia was really getting into it, as towards the end of the song, she felt the adrenaline rush surging through her and she began to sing even more passionately. One might even go as far as to believe that she had sung from the heart and was singing about a personal experience. Perhaps, even a lover she had became enamored with at one point in time.

She danced sensually against the wall as she plastered her body against it and sang in one of the most emotional voices one would hear in their lifetime. It was if she was in an hypnotic trance as she was overwhelmed with a confidence as the duo lit the spark that ignited the crowd into an thrilling uproar.

Wooden mugs slammed against the table and hootering and hollering could be heard giving praise from all around. It was an exciting and fun filled performance so far, but it wasn’t quite over yet, it was time for Sunny to set off her fireworks!

INVENTORY

EQUIPMENT: Starter Platemail, Starter Great Shield, Starter Longsword
ABILITIES USED: None.
Words: 1069
Post Theme Song: Can't Remember to Forget You by Shakira & Rihanna (Here's the song that they sing. ^^ )





TAGS: Piper Shuwen Sunny Fubuki

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[Fubuki]

Fubuki was not expecting an applause from the older audience, but still they applauded him. He felt a warm feeling that he was welcome here despite his youthful looks. Well, the male bartender was the only exception, but that was to be expected. He just ordered a lemonade soda in a place that served alcoholic drinks. But the order might not be the only one coming from him. He carefully studied the older people in the bar, seemingly searching for someone who might react on his order. It might be chaos if someone did so, but Fubuki was the type of person who could be easily provoked. Provoked, in the sense that he would accept someone's request to do something to please them. The lemonade might come in handy if that should happen. That was one of the many teachings that his father had imparted on him.

His father was an occasional drinker; no occasion would be complete for him without alcohol. But since his father knew that the money could be useful for their daily lives, he did it moderately. Once in about every month, he and his coworkers from the textile factory would go to some bar and order some mixed drinks for the whole crew. He had a penchant to keep sober while his coworkers were completely drunk, although he was drinking the same amount of alcohol. When Haruyuki landed a job as a all-around helper in the bar at the age of 13, his father advised against continuing the job, but since the father realized about his son's want to help, he imparted the secret of being sober in a bar. He still advised on not taking alcohol, but to simply order something which could be considered a chaser as a precaution when things would come to worse in the bar, especially when someone would make him drink alcohol. And so Haruyuki maintained that habit until he was freed from the problematic job.

This scenario should be the same: Fubuki entered the bar to try their technology and to entertain other people, but a bar is not a bar without alcohol, and some drunken people might try to make him drink. But since he wanted not to offend other people, the time might come that he should accept the offer. And so he ordered a chaser just to prepare for that. He took a sip from his order to have some taste, but he found the lemonade soda to be too sweet for his taste. Now how would that chase anything? But he kept calm, knowing that a lemonade soda should be fine whatever its sweetness might be.

And then, as he was cheerfully listening to the next song, he felt a hand patting his head. He reared his head to what should be the direction from where the hand was, and saw a woman scantily dressed in some areas. Why the choice of clothing of this woman, who he recalled from the underworld as Piper, was beyond him, but the compliment that she gave was very rewarding. He gave her a sweet smile and said, "Thank you for noticing my performance today! I hope that you'll also enjoy my next!" He did not focus as much on the drink that the monk was drinking, since he was sure that it was alcohol. Fortunately though, the monk did not entice him to drink, but suggested the reverse: kids like him should not drink yet. Fubuki then gave a sigh of relief as he was watching the performer on stage, which seemed to be someone given to hard metal with the screaming all around and the peculiar sound of the background music. Well since electric guitars had not been invented it had to be some other sort of instrument, but he did not know what were those instruments used to create some sort of an electric guitar-ish sound. He then watched on as one person with an exotic beauty uncommon to him invited another player known as Saskia to duet...wait. Was that Saskia the same Saskia as the person who served as the headmaster of the Vylbrand Academy? Fubuki froze in fear, thinking that the headmaster might be here. She might think that with him being here she might think that he was skipping classes. He then reared his head to the direction where the exotic beauty was staring at: behind the bar, at the side of the bartender who handed him the lemonade. The face and the hair... all of the features of her face looked very similar to the headmaster. Now Fubuki was more terrified, thinking that the headmaster might catch him in the act. He turned his face away from the bar, only to see another familiar face. When he saw the face as that of the professor Tessia, he became more anxious. Now everything was rolling down the pit for him. Fortunately the assassin did not call out for him, but for Piper who was just beside him. Sighing in relief that he was spared, he just let his eyes roll towards the professor so she would not take notice of him and think that he was skipping classes. But Piper, drunken as she was, just pulled Tessia onto her lap and said some strange things, which made Fubuki think that she was already too drunken. That raised a lot of hell deep inside Fubuki, even more when the headmaster implied about the fraternization policy of the academy. Knowing nothing of the rules, Fubuki was terrified. He did not know enough of the rules to know if there were some rules that specify the thing that would be done to a student who was caught in a bar when he was underage. Fortunately for the two there were no rules about the fraternization policy, but there was still no mention of the rules about being caught in a bar, which made Fubuki hesitate a lot. Still he managed to veil all the hesitation and fear inside him with a smile as he watched the duo of the exotic woman and the bartender headmaster perform their duet.

COMMENTS

The headmaster and a professor of my school were here! What am I gonna do... what am I gonna do~! *sniffles*

tags - Piper, Shuwen, Sunny, Saskia, Tessia

words - 1023

HP 100%

MP 100%

MADE BY PHEO

[Shuwen]

Words: 571

Sunny answered the question regarding the language she was speaking. Hah, nailed it. He thought, smiling a little at his own success. However, he quickly lost track of her and Saskia‘s conversation as he realized he had bigger issues to worry about.

Is it just me, or did the bar just get really crowded all of the sudden? It felt like there had only been a couple of people moments ago, yet all of a sudden, the Salty Scrub was full to the point of bursting, and Shuwen was scrambling to get everyone drinks. Maybe we ought to put up a maximum occupancy sign. Even without a formal government, and things like health regulations to force such issues to be dealt with, it was really something they needed to watch out for, especially during promotions like karaoke night. Unfortunately, he didn’t know where the manager was at the moment, so he wasn’t sure who else to turn to in that regard. Saskia asked him to take over briefly, and he remembered she was supposed to go on break pretty soon anyways, but the timing still irritated him a little. "Fine." He told her, trying to keep the irritation out of his voice “No need.” He responded to her offer to get him a break too. Fortunately, another one of the senior bartenders came in from the back of the bar and began to help him out, and his irritation quickly melted away in relief.

The latest person to enter the bar was another Ritual female, an assassin this time. Considering they were in an mmo, or a world based on an mmo, or something akin to that, her appearance was in fact, not out of place in the least. Saskia and he were more formally dressed, but that was because they’d been provided work uniforms to wear while on the job, and a lot of people hadn’t bothered to buy vanity wear, so seeing people dressed in combat gear was hardly uncommon. For some reason, she made a beeline right for Piper, who she appeared to recognize. The recognition appeared to be mutual, unfortunately, Piper sounded like she was already buzzed, or something, as her inhibitions were clearly beginning to slip. As she pulled the assassin, who the interface said was named Tessia, into her lap. Shuwen kept an eye on them. As much as he hated this part of the job, he was prepared to separate them should the Assassin appear to not want to go along with it. I hope it doesn’t come to that. Though the manager had given him some instruction on what to do in situations such as this, it was all to easy to make a mistake and react either too weakly or too strongly. Either way, it wasn’t a situation he wanted to be in. I guess it’s just part of the job. To his surprise, Saskia began talking to them, even referring to the Assassin as “professor” Geez, she definitely wasn’t joking about being a guildmaster. After that, she went up on stage and started singing a song of her own. This time, it was a song he recognized, if only vaguely. It was one of the songs radio every so often. He didn’t know what it was called or who it was originally by, but he could have probably followed along during the chorus, if he’d had the inclination to do so.

[Sunny]

Oh, you know Sunny was all over the idea of singing something in her own language. The jukebox in her head had dozens of songs that would be totally appropriate for the occasion. The only problem was that she really doubted that there were any songs from Brazil sitting pretty and ready on that karaoke machine. The Swashbuckler was on the verge of commenting on that when Saskia made her own suggestion, apparently very much into the idea of a duet. Sunny grinned at her response, more than ready to match beats with the Guardian and to a song she knew, no less!

She nodded, dreadlocks bouncing at the motion, "Oh, that one would be good. Let's do it!" Standing, the Ritualist stepped away from her seat as she waited for Saskia to excuse herself and come around the counter. In the meantime, Sunny turned her eyes on the surrounding bunch. The blue-haired guy was flitting from one side of the counter to the other. The boy who had just performed seemed to be doing as much people-watching as she was. Piper was . . . busy -for lack of a better word- with an apparent acquaintance. Sunny caught something about "Santa Claus" before Saskia reappeared, jokingly teasing the two women.

Alcohol consumed and spirits raised, Sunny and Saskia took to the stage with microphones in-hand and attitudes cocked for the kill. Sunny thought to remove her jacket as the music began, revealing the long, swirling runes that coursed her naked arms. In that moment, she would be the back-drop to her partner's solo, body moving subtlety in slight motions that would entertain but not draw full attention away from Saskia. When her time came, Sunny leaned on the belief that it wasn't necessarily voice that counted in karaoke but flare. She wasn't a singer by any stretch of the imagination; Rihanna's part was thankfully low enough to be comfortable for the Ritualist, but that didn't' matter to her at all. She grinned wickedly, hips moving side-to-side, as her eyes went from crowd member to crowd member, making it seem as if they were ,one-by-one, the subject of the song.

Voices bounced back-and-forth at the bridge, sunshine eyes meeting ocean-blues as the pair faced one another for the coming finale. Colorful hair gleamed against the lighting of the stage as the performers moved. At one point of the rocking finale, Sunny flung her jacket into the crowd as one, final act of adrenaline-surged high. With the last phrase came a dedication, the Swashbuckler's winking eye and pointing finger singling out the bartender who'd poured her drink earlier. The song's final notes faded against Sunny's gleeful laughter as she leaned against Saskia.

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Words: 452

[Tessia]

She was surprised.  That much was a given considering she now sat on the larger girls lap looking flustered and just a bit caught off guard.  Piper was clearly drunk-ish and Tessia was in between a decision to let her be a little or get her out of there and too a inn or something.  Drinking was fun of course if one didn't loose the memory after waking up with a hangover.  Deciding too stay close too her for now, Tessia even gave Piper a gentle hug a bit and said "Well, I don't need anything but thank you Santa."  Smiling too herself she would slip aside next too Piper and scoot a chair next too her.  Aside from the girls drunken slurs, the bar was filled with laughter and smiles.

It was odd too see as usually Tessia would spend her time in her shop working on projects and such.  This was a nice change of pace all things considered.  Not too mention she kept running into, not figuratively at all, the rather cute Monk called Piper.  A little bit loud and challenging Tessia thought it would be a perfect time to enjoy some time with the girl.  Even if she may or may not remember it later.  Ordering a simple tea, Tessia st back and relaxed and surveyed the people in and about the bar.  Even tugging her face mask down a bit, something she usually reserved for just friends, and flashed a smile here and there at some people.  

Tessia was not much a social butterfly, preferring small teams or open combat too bars or dances.  She loved for the hunt and for the people close too her.  With any luck the girl might end up counting Piper close too her as well.  She would like that very very much.  It was then she thought of Bro and his situation.  It had been quite a while since she had heard from her Bro and she worried what he might have gotten into.  Bunji wasn't one too bite of more than he could chew, well he was but he knew when too back out of it.  Sighing a little Tessia slipped her battle ax off her back and got comfy too wait on Piper and hope she didn't pass out from the alcohol.  The smaler girl would have issue with carrying a larger one on her shoulders, but she knew she could manage if necessary.  Her tattoos shimmered a soft silver as she felt her min relax for once in quite some time.