Apherion

"You'd never guess it," Tea said, scrunching her nose lightly. Apherion laughed softly. "Oh, we're not to the 'good' stuff yet. Keep your eyes open and try not to seperate from the group, you'll lose yourself in there." She's not serious is she? Kaleb silently thought, watching the pink-haired President click with her heels beside the other, clicking in time with her partner. He mentally flipped both of them off. "All right, what you see here is..." Kaleb was hardly paying attention to the three in front of him to pay mind to what they had to say. He didn't have to learn it, so why bother? "Oh, Sora," he heard ViVian call out somewhere in the midst of the lecture. She started pointing out things with Apherion's help...and then he caught the drift. One of his possible work places I take it. He was just about to keep going when- "Kaleb," ViVian's voice rang like crystal through his brain and he looked at her with an apathetic 'what?' look on his face. "You said you were a designer for Ralph Lauren right?" He blinked and remembered the fake application. Oh yeah...right. "And to the left is where some of our skilled artist and designers sit to create the hot new looks for young people and old people alike." Chris called out. "This could be one of your work-stations. I know it's a bit busy, but you'll like it," Apherion said, almost too close to his ear... Almost. He nodded vaguely and stared after her and ViVian, watching Valerie, Tea, and Sora follow them like moths to light. Maybe working here won't be so bad at all, he thought as they all settled down for lunch after going through the maze-like designer floor. OOC: Lunch is a time for you all to get with your characters and bond with the other characters. Have fun! :animesmil

"That's perfect, I'm glad you decided it," Apherion said laughing. "It's harder to beat around the bush per say, but I didn't want to come off rude as we like to make sure our workers are comfortable. You and Valerie," the girl looked up and walked over. "Yes?" She asked gazing softly at her. "Valerie and Tea, you two will be working together in our modeling agency. If it becomes too much for you Tea, tell me, and I'll get you in with the Writing Block." She smiled genuinely. "Let keep going, we haven't even made a dent in how many wings we have."

"No, actually we're waiting on Kaleb. ViVian, when did you tell him to meet us here?" "Same time I told Tea," she said smiling. Whipping out her own phone, Apherion stood and walked away from the crowd around the corner, looking like she was dialing Kaleb's numbers. She was actually texting ViVian. [FONT=Times New Roman]We r going 2 hv sm prob w/ him if he's l8 again[/FONT] Hitting the OK to send the message, she waited for it to send while talking to herself like she was talking to Kaleb so she wouldn't look suspicious to the others when she got back. ---Kaleb's point of view--- "Damn, damn, damn! I told you idiots that I had to be there [I]at[/I] 8:30, not [I]leave[/I] here at 8:30! Shit," he cursed at his business partners for running the meeting longer than it should have gone. Thankfully, he was already decked out in his outfit for the second meeting with his new 'bosses'. Fifteen minutes later he came to a screeching halt at E. Association. He looked at a stone mounument outside that had the words declaring, 'If you're going to pursue a dream, make that dream here.' He didn't understand it, but he shook his head and continued inside. He quickly badgered the receptionist where the other 'call-backs' were and she finally said unpon recognition. He darted to the elevator, the chick's voice fading away, asking for his number. He sniffed, as if I'm going to result to what you do. I know all about letting minors in this place, and most, if not all, are in your 'type' of modeling. Just selling skin, that's all that you do here. ---Apherion's point of view--- "Ah, he'll be arriving shortly," She said, clicking into her seat with her black prada heels (these are very much like stilettos), matching her black tank dress, with her long, pink hair pulled into a bun on top of her head. They sat in silence for a few minutes, Apherion vaguely wondered how tense everyone else was. Valerie definitely would make a lovely addition to the modeling department. Even after several cups of coffee, her and ViVian had been hard pressed to find a place that would suit the other three's talents. Tea would also be good with the modeling, but I don't know how comfortable she would be. That's the thing that ViVian, Recon, and she tried to do: put people where they are comfortable. ViV and I, being comfortable everywhere, sit in for modeling every now and then, write a couple of chapters for some of the aspiring authors, help muse the artists into drawing. Nadein is the best artist of our generation, Apherion thought, and Maira's making leaps and bounds. "Ah, so glad you've graced us with your prescence Mr. Twight," Apherion said coolly as the elevator doors opened and he stepped out. Black hair, deep, dark brown eyes, eyeliner... ViVian also stood, motioning the others to do the same. "We will be taking a tour, just so you can get used to this facility," ViVian started smiling at everyone. "Yes, and even though you will be put in your 'work area', I implore you to follow us for the entire trip for you do bring paper work and things like that to other offices, mainly ours," Apherion indicated herself and ViVian. ViVian began to walk ahead before she called over her shoulder. ---Kaleb's point of view--- "Step lively, we don't spend too long gawking at certain things, unless they begged to be oggled at." The auburn-haired ViVian laughed and the others began to follow. He was about to as well, but he felt Apherion grab hold on his forearm. "We don't tolerate those who don't listen so I give you fair warning. Don't let it happen again. We may be under the law, but that doesn't mean we don't have insiders. Listen to instuctions and it'll be a real pleasure working with you." He nodded, but inwardly added, how so? Both caught up with the group in no time, Apherion's shoes clicking on the tile in time with ViVian's, and Kaleb had the distinct impression he had sold his soul to the devils. In his frame of mind he figured that if anyone thought that the devil was one person, they were fools.

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OOC: Oh yeah, you know. LOL, oh and digiX can you please use periods and paragraphs (i know you can so please do it :catgirl: ) And thanks, Lilt. IC: "Where are we putting...?" Oh yes, she saw through the moniter Sora standing a little ways off, along with Tea close to the elevator. "Ok, first off, who are you?" She asked to the woman sitting in the chair. "I'm...Valerie Winchcombe." That's right, Apherion remembered last night phone call. Persistence is always a good factor, just don't call too late at night. "My apologies, you are fifteen, correct?" And without waiting for an answer, Apherion told to her stand. Looking her down she said, "I want to see if you look as good as you face." Her eyes looked back at Valerie's. "Ah, no...no stripping involved, yet." Spinning the girl around slowly for a couple of seconds, Apherion stopped her. "All right, you're in, what say you ViV?" She looked over at her auburn-haired friend, then back at the dark orange-haired Valerie. "Sounds good to me." "Then you'll be glad to follow us so we can get positions for you and three others." Smiling at ViVian, who smiled back, all three walked into the elevator. "Oh, ViVian, when are you due back at work?" OOC: Kinda left it hanging, but I want xXAngelic1ZXx to finish that, cuz she hasn't gotten her feel of the action just yet.

Lunch was over quickly as Apherion was quite anxious for her and ViV to get back to the 'headquarters' to speak with Kaleb. Then to make the phone calls, and then, maybe, sit back, relax, and ask for the updates that she and ViVian had missed during the interview. "Maira, how's your department doing?" ViVian asked as they saw the eighteen year-old in the elevator to get to their room. "Wonderfully, you realize the fashion has been sky-rocketing since we decided to go globel?" "Yeah, I can," Apherion replied, finishing off the braid that she was putting her pink hair in. "All that hostility to figure out what 'E' is. It's just a letter that could incriminate us if it gets out to the paranoid public." "Like we're going to start a war. Apherion, quit being such a drag." She laughed at Maira's too true words. "Oh, my stop, see you!" As she departed, ViVian muttered behind her hands to her friend. "Yeah, but we will end up starting a war if everyone one knows about 'E'." "Don't be a killjoy, I just like sounding dark...and speaking of dark, we have an eyeliner-wearing man coming into our office." Exactly three second later, both screamed at each other. "Be good! Jinx!" The two smiled, laughing. Then ViVian replied. "Oh yeah, behaving is my middle name, but at any rate." Ten minutes later both were settled in their chairs staring unrelenting at the twenty-six year-old in front of them. "What do you like about our facilities, Mr. Twight?" ViV asked first, once again pushing her long, auburn hair behind her ears. "Oh...well, it's clean." He said hesitantly, just enough though. "Really, what can you contribute to our...busniness," Apherion shot at him, folding her hands on the desktop. He watched the movement, and she and ViVian pass a knowing look to each other. He looked her in the eyes and replied, "I have tons of experience in marketing and I'm not at all disturbed by some of the things you people do here." Apherion grinned while ViVian giggled openly. "Fair enough, we'll be in touch." And the interview was over once he got up to leave. Both girls watched him with grins on their faces and when the door shut behind him, the two started to laugh hysterically. "Did you see his face when-? "And did you notice how uneasy he was?" The two laughed, sharing the 'inside joke'. The main thing that happened after that was at four o'clock when RaShell and DJ started yelling at each other, and with DJ at the other end of the corridor of the reception area, it was pretty vocal. "Rock, paper, scissors for who phones who?" Apherion asked. ViVian nodded as both went best two out of three. For Sora, the first victor was ViVian with scissors, but she lost the other two to Apherion's 'skillful' (actually luck) reading. Apherion ended up losing the next matches for Tea and Kaleb. "Damn you, ah well, I'm horrible at that game. Why did we consent as that one to be the game we play to choose who gets to call whom?" "You already answered it: you suck at that game." Both laughing, Apherion picked up the phone of its reciever and dialed the numbers to Sora Hamagary's place of residence. He answered promptly and she noted how he answered. "Ah, Sora, I expect you to show up at E/A tomorrow at...let's say 8:30 AM so we can find your [I]true[/I] position. You got the job." His celebrations could be heard slightly in the background. "Yes, don't forget, 8:30 tomorrow morning." With that she hung up, no good-byes exchanged, that's why she wasn't a receptionist.

Yeah, I liked how indifference put it, but I find the subtitles are better because practically everything has had it's meaning changed in anime. For example: Naruto, in Japan a show for teenagers, in USA a show for 12 and under (but the older kids are welcome to see it). That's the thing that bothers me.

Taking a drink of her coffee, Apherion slid into her desk. Interviews...oh god, she thought to herself as she examined the papers. She sighed, taking another sip of the vanilla cappucino. It was not how she liked to start her day. Yet, she thought, shuffling the folders, we have to accept a couple applicants due to our 'coming out'. What she meant by 'coming out' wasn't that E/A was a support group for those certain people (E/A isn't even closed to the idea), but E/A was finally allowing the world to see this top secret organization. It brought her and ViVian to tears each time they spoke about it, but along with the tears it brought both worry. "Well," Apherion said, using a french-tipped finger to push down on the intercom to the front desk on the bottom floor, "I'd like to see," she read the folder with the man name on it. "Send Sora Hamagary up to see me, please, RaShell." Apherion barely heard the reply of 'Right away' when the door burst open. "Hey ViV, have some car trouble?" ViVian laughed, brushing her auburn hair behind her ears. "Oh yeah, and you wouldn't believe the traffic either." "I think I can imagine, I've been late a few times because of," both laughed as ViVian took her place beside the bubblegum-haired woman. It was an obvious code both liked to use, and Recon never seemed to mind the fake excuses. "I thought you...oh wait, never mind, field trip." ViVian nodded, opening the folder of Mr. Sora Hamagary. "Wow, he doesn't have-" the door opened and both women looked up to see Sora walk in, looking around a bit shifty. "Sit," both Apherion and ViVian said together, business-like voices set, but smiling. And thus, the interview began, ranging from questions to 'Are you uncomfortable with images that may be grotesque or inappropriate?' to 'Do you know what the 'E' stands for?' He answered just fine, and when he left, looking a bit pale, Apherion looked at her friend and co-worker. "Looks [I]and[/I] a brain, I'm impressed. He stays," ViVian said. "I'm surprised they keep you on at that High School." "The kids love me!" She replied in mock-outrage. "Yeah, well, your turn to pick the applicant," Apherion said, shoving the papers under her friend's nose. ViVian, being the professional she is, closed her eyes and poked one with her finger. "Ok, so we're interviewing Tea Kaze." "Tea? Wasn't her name longer?" Apherion laughed. "If you can pronouce that name, I'll give you a thousand out of my paycheck." ViVian laughed and told their receptionist to send her in. All went well with her interview as well. The woman sure did pass the 'attractiveness' proportion of the test (only Apherion and ViVian didn't openly discuss that with her). It was noon by now. "Shit, lunch, my treat?" Apherion asked her friend. "Yeah, definately. And Kaleb Twight's getting an interview." "Yup, there's something about makeup on a man," Apherion laughed, pressing the intercom's button. "RaShell, tell, Kaleb to come back after lunch and we'll talk to him then. Everyone else can go home. I think we've got our three new members." OOC: Yeah, long and sorry my friend xXAngelic1ZXx for using your character so much. Forigve me! LOL. Happy posting people.

All right, looks good everyone, Maria I'm going to be lieniant with you, and Lilt try and finish up your post. This will be starting today, Monday.

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I'm looking for a couple more people to sign-up, if none do, I think we'll start this off sometime next week ('cause even the most deviant people here have to live with their mothers still-not eighteen :animecry: )

OK, good sign-ups everyone. This thing will be ready to go with a few more sign-ups. I will be posting the NPCs and my second character right now. ::Character Sheet:: Name: Kaleb Twight Age: 26 Sex: M Organization: Undercover Business Official, applying for a rank in E/A Appearance: The 5'10" Kaleb originally had short, blonde hair, with tanned skin. He used to wear black suits with some sort of bright colored shirt underneath. Now, after being placed to go and discover the secret of 'E', he has to keep his personals on the D/L. In other words, he had his hair grown out a little and dyed it black. His eyes are the same dark brown color, whilst his skin was deprived of sun-giving him a light complexion that still looks a bit tanned, just not so much. He wears some eyeliner and he spikes the little longer hair. Bio: All the mega-businesses came together one day. Kaleb, being the CEO's right hand, accopanied in the meeting. It was about who the businesses should choose to go undercover for them. They couldn't send everyone in their factories, it'd be too suspicious. One from Tommy H. suggested that two from each group go in and figure it out. Someone from Hilton Interprises proposed that only one from each group. But no, let it be someone from a book company-the second largest one in fact-say that all the CEOs should come up with one canidate from each business and using three impartial judges to vote on one person to work for all of the businesses, despite that he or she was once working for someone within the business ring. It was beyond Kaleb that he was going to be looking like some imitation goth figure to apply for the E/A position. [U]NPCs[/U] Levy 'Recon' Grant - CEO of E/A; Male; 47 years old Toko Kreen - Principal of Everlasting High; Female; 36 years old

Rated M for Mature: For uncomfortable situations, some violence, funny but wrong things, taboo relationships...the list can go on... [CENTER][COLOR=Blue]"And now, a sepcial broadcasting from the world-reknowned E. Association." A news anchor sat patiently as the broadcasting camera was re-directed to somewhere unknown to the TV station and the world. "This is E. Association, commonly reffered as E/A for short." A woman with bubblegum pink hair and fair skin came onto the screen soon after the pause. A second woman, equally attractive, auburn-haired woman enter stage left (in other words the pink haired woman's right side). "We all hope this isn't too inconvinient, but we have made a proposal-to open E/A up to the world for what it truly is." The woman had tanned skin that looked dark compared to the light skinned beauty. "The catch," the pink-haired woman spoke, her small lips parting with each word as if she were breathing them. "The catch is, the letter 'E' shall never be exploited for what it actually is." Both women smiled, eyes still obscured by the long bangs hanging in front of their eyes.[/COLOR][/CENTER] [COLOR=Red][CENTER]"That was odd...I must really not pay attention to fashion anymore." The middle-aged woman turned the power off her TV set and went to bed. What the woman didn't realize was that the news cast that she had just seen would change the world into a frenzy to find out what the 'E' stood for in E/A and that the news cast wasn't for fashion.[/CENTER][/COLOR] That's the intro, obviously. It may seem to be 'girl-centric' but actually, the only way this RPG can work is if we have some guys. Yes, we need GUY CHARACTERS in this thing too. Each person may play up to 3 characters (NPCs not included) ::Character Sheet:: Name: Age: (15-26-though there are NPCs that are older) Sex: M, F Organization (the people who hired your character to find out what the 'E' stands for; if you're a student you attend Everlasting High-no college, sorry; if you are an E/A staff member you are applying for the job* and you are either from some other business** trying to expose E/A or are truly there becasue you know more than what you let on***) Appearance (detailed description-not some pansy 'green hair, blue eyes' nonsense, something that you'd be proud to tell your English teacher about-or a picture is acceptable): Bio (now this is optional, I'm only putting it here because some people don't like to 'wing it' in the RPG): *: In my first couple of posts, it will be my character interviewing yours and my character tells you that you got the job. **: These business' will stop at nothing to figure out what that 'E' stands for. Along the way the business people have picked up information that could become quite questionable for E/A (ex: modeling agencies-nudist sort of thing, if you've read the manga 'Snow Drop' it's what Hae-Gi does, artistry with morbid or dry sense of humor graphics, etc.) ***: These are the few people that know what the 'E' stands for and they know how sacrid the word is to the people of E/A because if the 'E' word is found out by the business' then everyone inside may be jailed. ----(BTW, sorry for the long post!) My Character: Name: Apherion LysKay (pronunciation: A (as in the letter 'A')-fear-ree-on lis-kay) (yes, I realize this is my u/n, but this is a RPG of this little thing I came up with for people in tuned with the ways of E/A) Age: 23 Sex: F Organization: One of the Presidents of E/A (the other President is also the real co-founder of E/A, the woman with auburn hair) Appearance: Bright emerald eyes gleam from beneath a curtain of lustrous pink hair. With peach-white, cream colored skin with a touch of freckles on the cheeks, chest, arms, and legs, she has a complextion that's worth taking care of. Her lips are humble and thin, a slight scarlet tint. Standing at an impressive five foot seven, she flows like willowy water from her head to her toes. Curves hitting it right in just the right places, she can have a man gawking in seconds (which is kind of the point for her and her partner's expertise as presidents' at E/A). So not to get too descriptive, she's filled out in [B]all[/B] the right places. ---- Happy RPGing!