V:TM Brujah Makes Her Journal Debut

[brujah_barkeep]

'Sup?

So, what's the dealio here? I'm supposed to blab at you about how it's a bad idea to make this journal or how I don't like the name you gave me or something?

Well, you know me. I love not living up to expectations.

So where can a girl get a drink around here? I'm thinking something in the form of a soccer mom?

Comments

[indiscreet]

...Well, at least you're slightly more comprehensible than the Malkavian.

[brujah_barkeep]

Oh, you did not just compare me to a Lunatic.

[indiscreet]

No need to get all upstage on me -- it was a favorable comparison, wasn't it?

[brujah_barkeep]

[A pause. You can almost see the cogs turning in what passes for Denise's brain.]

Yeah. I guess so.

[indiscreet]

[ Oh, this is much nicer, feeling halfway in control of a situation for once. She'll even hold off razzing her about "dealio." ]

So, what brings you to these parts? Besides, of course, the questionable people-watching.

[brujah_barkeep]

Just looking for some fun. Preferably the type that doesn't involve icky Kindred crap.

Speaking of icky Kindred crap, you Arty's new protege?

[indiscreet]

As if any of us can hope to escape from politics.

...And...ah. [ Does every this place know each other? ] I believe Ms. Seth is rather adamant that she is a "Cainite." Apparently there's a difference?
I suppose it's true that I work for her now, though. [ even if she isn't sure just what she's gotten herself into by getting involved ]

[brujah_barkeep]

Eh. Cainite. Kindred. Vampire. Undead she-beast. It's all the same thing, really. Except for that last one, coz I kinda made that up.

Sucks for you, though.

[indiscreet]

(( that was supposed to say "every vampire in this place," haha whoops ))

"Undead she-beast" has rather a nice ring to it, though. I might adopt it as a term of affection.

But... [ she sighs ] You don't know the half of it. [ a pause, and then the sense of loyalty kicks in ] She knows what she's doing, though.
...I...think.

[brujah_barkeep]

Oh yeah. That's the scary part. Those Malks? They're like ninjas or something. You never see it coming--the logic behind it all, I mean--until it's jumping you in a back alley or something.

[indiscreet]

...I don't think I want to be mugged by back-alley logic.

[ beat ]

Whatever that means. Goodness knows Ms. Seth hardly ever explains a thing to me. I half suspect it's all a big game to her, or at least I would, if she didn't apparently take it so seriously.

...How do you know her, by the way?

[brujah_barkeep]

Long time member of the sorority. Gone to hell and back. Which, for the record, is not fun.

Even if they do have Easter eggs.

[indiscreet]

...I have no idea what you just said.

Except, perhaps, for Hell apparently being a bit like the land of dreams.

[brujah_barkeep]

It's a special and different place.

[indiscreet]

Hell is?

Are you quite certain you aren't confused...

[brujah_barkeep]

I think so. Yup. Pretty sure.

Why?

[indiscreet]

It's not...really the standard description of Hell.

[brujah_barkeep]

Oh, brimstone and hellfire? Yeah, not so much.

[indiscreet]

[ She raises her eyebrows. Entering "humor the strange undead she-beast" mode. ]

What is Hell like, then?

[brujah_barkeep]

Well, I'm not exactly a theology expert or anything, but near as I can tell, it's different for everyone.

You know, like that thing about how my idea of the color red might be your blue or something.

[indiscreet]

[ still skeptical ]...I don't think I'm familiar with that theory.

Though the idea of a personalized Hell has a certain sort of logic to it...

What was yours? Though I imagine that's rather a personal question, but perhaps you don't mind sharing -- after all, you're not there any longer, apparently.

[brujah_barkeep]

Uh...well...there were Easter eggs. And a big brawl. It was all Hitchcockian.

Is that a word? I declare it to be a word.

[indiscreet]

You're speaking nonsense again. I swear, you and Artemis both.

And do you have something against Easter eggs? How was it that they were in your personal hell?

[brujah_barkeep]

Dunno. They just...did things to you.

[indiscreet]

Rather like bits of dreamstuff...

You know, if I hadn't experienced something like it, I'd say madness was a universal trait of Cainites.

[brujah_barkeep]

Well, we are a wild and crazy bunch.