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Post by Hammett on Mar 7, 2024 4:43:36 GMT
[[OCC: I didn't mention that, or that I had a trump of anyone. I only said I saw someone trump away and they turned x-ray purple and I could see their skeleton, but not that I had trumped them or had a trump of the big bad.]]
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Post by Admin on Mar 9, 2024 8:49:12 GMT
[[OOC: Hammett brought the subject up so Lorcas was assuming Ham had the card so as to witness the transformation.]]
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Post by Admin on Mar 10, 2024 4:30:32 GMT
The door to the room opens and a tall, dark-haired man enters.
[OOC: Do Hammett and Dirk know each other from earlier times in Amber?]
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Post by Hammett on Mar 10, 2024 6:17:53 GMT
[[OCC: Maeve brought Dirk into Wormwood's one night a long time ago (Maeve was a regular). Introduced Dirk & Hammett, who had heard the name before, but they had never met. Didn't quite hit it off as Dirk proclaimed to be a pirate and Hammett does not like pirates (he was in the Amber Navy and runs a shipping company and a small fleet of ships, so he really hates pirates). They chatted, Hammett was coldly polite. That was it as far as I remember. Hammett never knew about Dirk's Chaos heritage as far as I know.]]
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Post by Hammett on Mar 10, 2024 6:58:44 GMT
"You mean you'd want me--" He stops, surprised when the man enters unannounced, and even more surprised when he sees who it is. Dirk, the pirate of the Golden Seas, what the hell was he doing here and well at home apparently? Had he been a Chaos agent this whole time? Pirating the Golden Circle to help disrupt trade and weaken Amber? Taking any military information gained from his attacks and sending it back here to the courts? But his father was Cain, why would Dirk side against Amber? A double agent? Triple agent? Hammett's mind raced. And what did that mean about Maeve? She was a regular, and he knew she had Chaos family, but he thought her independent, like himself. Was she also working for the Courts, maybe as Dirk's handler?
As he considered all the possibilities, he tried to keep his expression under control and force just a vague surprise/puzzlement at seeing Dirk here, but he doesn't speak, waiting for Lorcus or Dirk to go first.
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Post by Dirk on Mar 10, 2024 7:35:32 GMT
Dirk takes Dakota to à stable where he will be taken care of. Then he goes to find his uncle. Dirk sounds cold and tired. "Where is my mother?" He's talking to Lord Lorcas and sounds like he knows the answer to the question and is going to ask it anyways.
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Post by Admin on Mar 11, 2024 3:13:31 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/fx2fYZC/Lorcas4~png "Dirk, I'm sorry to say that your mother has died," Lorcas bluntly says. "Assassinated amidst the confusion during the King's funeral."
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Post by Dirk on Mar 11, 2024 14:22:25 GMT
Dirk stares into space and more or less sits down hard. "Whatvdo I need to do now? I needbto find Dio and Maeve and tell the powers that be some really important news."
He stands up and paces around almost panicked.
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Post by Admin on Mar 12, 2024 6:48:19 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/fx2fYZC/Lorcas4~png "Maeve of Helgram? Lorcas asks. "If you have such important information, you should best tell me, and I can decide what to tell the powers that be.
"Hammett, fix him a drink. Help my nephew get sorted out."
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Post by Hammett on Mar 13, 2024 2:55:46 GMT
Hammett nods and quickly goes over to the bar and mixes Dirk a powerful drink, with bright and sour mix to help snap him into focus. Heck, he makes one for all of them, someone might want to make a toast.
He drops a drink near Lord Lorcas's hand, then give another to Dirk, keeping the last for himself.
"I'm very sorry for your loss."
All those years of running a bar were finally paying off...
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Post by Dirk on Mar 13, 2024 3:03:24 GMT
Dirk takes the drink and gulps it down as he paces in a circle getting more wound up "Brand's not fucking dead. I was almost married off by the Regent of Amber. I rode my ass all the way back here just to find out my mother's dead. So now I have no direct family left and I am about to kill someone damn it!"
Dirk is yelling at the top of his lungs. "Fuck" over and over again. He's heading for the door. "I want Dio."
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Post by Admin on Mar 13, 2024 3:48:17 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/fx2fYZC/Lorcas4~png "Again with the Dio. That girl must have a power pull on you all. Why, Hammett was dropping her name only a few moments ago."
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Post by Hammett on Mar 13, 2024 4:32:23 GMT
Hammett nods in agreement, "We were discussing royal family members in the Courts and their Houses and I was asking Lord Lucas here, if he knew of Dio, since I had met her recently. How do you know her? I was under the impression she had been locked up in a convent her whole life."
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Post by Dirk on Mar 13, 2024 6:20:26 GMT
We met in Amber and she and I are a couple of sorts. We were headed back to Chaos and got separated. I love ger.
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Post by Hammett on Mar 17, 2024 7:11:15 GMT
"Oh, well, that is at least some nice news in these troubled times." He steps back and sips his drink, letting Lorcus and Dirk catch up.
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