OD 12.19.2002 [5:54 p.m.]

heh. me talking myself up into a fury.

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warning. HUGE RANT.

ANYWAY. the fight scene itself - all of it - is actually in the forums. only the cool bits are on my archives. in between there was a whole buncha melodramatic shit. anyway. so disjointed, this rant. and really detailed too, now that i look at it *heh*

corran, rune and decker all show up. decker goes to the door and knocks. noah's inside with zoe and eliza, and both of them are waiting on him hand and foot cuz poor guy, he's all busted up from almost busting up his kin.

zoe goes, want me to answer? and heads over. noah goes, find out who it is. eliza goes, "it's decker."

decker has good ears, so he's like - "yeah. DECKER. i see how it is. beat on my woman and hide behind yours."

noah's like, yelling from waaaay inside, "i never hurt imogen. i didn't even bruise her! you got your info wrong. i don't hurt my kin."

eliza and zoe cluck a bit and are all clustered around the door like this way they can stop decker from breaking in cuz they know (the players, that is, i suspect) he wouldn't intentionally bash on them. meanwhile rune and corran are moving up to flank decker and he tells them to back off cuz it's his fight.

then decker goes, "you tell that yellowbellied cur (pops crinos) to get out here."

more cluckery. eliza's like, "fine, if noah wants to." noah comes to the door and.......talks through the window at decker. (jacen's cracking up at this point, and so's wolf. oocly, TONS and TONS of YAPPING. my god.)

noah goes, "this isn't necessary. i didn't hurt her."

decker hits him with true fear (this is that 12 successes roll, heh) and goes, "last chance. walk out or i come get you."

much cluckery. the kin are like, all clotted around the door now. noah backs toward the kitchen.

decker gets pissed, goes "protect the kin; the rest is my business" to corran and rune, and huffs and puffs and......kicks through the wall. jacen's like, I KNEW HE WAS GONNA DO THAT! *LMAO*

anyway, so then inside, zoe and eliza and rune and corran and the kids are frantically evacuating. there's a bigass hole in the wall and decker goes grab at noah. noah, crinos now, blocks with the sword. decker whips out his axe, then grabs at him again and catches him by the throat, squeezes, does like a token 2 bashing damage, and then noah Shrouds everything and now it's pitch black.

more evacuation maneuvers. meanwhile decker drops rage galore, points himself in the opposite direction of the screaming kids (MEGA DRAMATIC posts from zoe and eliza about the poor screaming children oh me oh my oh woe are we and oh yeah it's all decker's fault) and starts running.

he drags noah through the wall, and then drags noah over the ground for another 3-4 actions' worth of running through the forest, and then throws noah down, chops the axe down at him, and grinds to a stop at the last possible instant (though in retrospect, given the amount of BS later, i'm beginning to regret stopping at all ooc *smirk*).

anyway, he goes, "are you ready to listen now?"

noah goes, "yeah, but only if you listen to me afterwards because that corran's a snake!"

i think decker knows corran isn't exactly being a shining paragon of coggie, but at the moment he doesn't give a damn, so he tells noah to shut up and then says 1) imogen's his, and if noah thinks otherwise he's welcome to come and get his ass kicked again 2) come on pack turf and they'll mark him for life and 3) lay hands on imogen again and he'll be as good as dead. then he claws a 'dishonor' glyph into noah's head and goes - "don't talk to me again until that heals clean."

***

breaking it up so it's a little easier to read, heh.

at this point, he more or less leaves. then there's like a million posts of UBERDRAMA where apparently eliza's house (i swear V called it a house a million times and CORRECTED me when i called it a cabin) shrinks to a cabin, and the guest cabin out back shrinks to a hut. and since it's so tiny, and since there are two holes in it, the house-turned-cabin is about to collapse and is simultaneously catching fire.

so i'm like, geez, that's a little dramatic, eh? some squawking. then enter some HILARIOUS posts from jacen: "how is it on fire?"

(LIKE, BIG FIRE. big enough for noah to smell half a mile away)

V and shann and trish: "all the fighting jarred things around and there are a lotta flammable things!"

jacen: "fireplaces don't exactly spit out fire. they're kinda designed NOT to do that."

*just DIED*

then there was an argument over like...whether or not the house-turned-cabin was gonna fall down entirely from two holes. on one side jacen and i are like dude cars can crash into houses without even toppling a single ROOM, so the whole thing collapsing is a bit much. on the other the squakteam is like, they're CRINOS! they're HUGE! holes are bigger than the people who made them!

anyway this goes on for a while and then suddenly in the posts the HUGE ROARING FIRE is just a log that rolled outta the fireplace and the COLLAPSING HOUSE is just two holes in the wall.

all this time, btw, Noah's like. all badass again. not scared, even though by all rights he still had about 7-8 posts left under the effect of True Fear. no BLOOD even after getting dragged like a half-mile. not even muddy! oh and that glyph? gone! can't see it!

so jacen posts that corran sees the glyph there, and the mess that noah is. and shann goes, "the glyph's on his chest. you can't see it, he's using the monkey puzzle and he looks human with clothes."

i'm like, "no, it's on his FOREHEAD."

jacen: "Oh, he's walking with his hand on his head?"

(JUST DIED, AGAIN)

shann: "NO!!! he's using monkey puzzle! you can't see it!"

ensue MASSIVE argument over whether or not monkey puzzle covers up WOUNDS and DIRT. at this point i'm fuckin PISSED OFF because jesus christ the hens squak at me for DAYS AND DAYS and finally all decker does to noah is DRAG HIM AROUND a little and CARVE A GLYPH in his head and shann can't even live up to THAT?

*FUMES AGAIN!*

i mean JESUS, i remember after iron raven kicked svad's ass, i posted him limping around for like a WEEK. grrr!!! i have NEVER seen ANYone so UTTERLY unwilling to let their char look bad for even a MINUTE.

anyway...at the end of the ridiculousness, jacen's like, "well whatever, CORRAN can still see it cuz monkey puzzle only affects humans." everyone's grumping, the squakteam most of all. meanwhile IC posts continue to reflect noah as utterly unblemished and unharmed. would think he WON a fight instead of got his ass dragged around like a sack of flour.

grrrrr.

oh and V tosses off some really really bitter posts that had the henhouse cheering. it was fuckin ridiculous.

***

so! anyway! ICly, then, noah - all puffed up - picks a fight with corran (like: how did decker FIND OUT, hm?)

jacen GOES OFF. you really gotta read this scene *LOL* at least read it outta my archive (if you can find it, heh). i can't BEGIN to encapsulate corran's post. basically first he types about how noah's a godawful mess from getting dragged around, and then proceeds to verbally rip noah a new one.

he's all, (greatly condensed version) "i'm a coggie. i saw you getting ready to rip a friend's mate up. i told the friend. then i came along so if he killed you i could try to save you. he gave you three chances to come out and you hid among women and children. then he went in and got you, and you got your ass drug out and stomped like you shoulda, so stop acting superior and be glad you're not dead."

shann/noah goes OFF, back. he's like, "you jealous fuck! you did it because you hate me going after zoe! not because of any sorta loyalty!"

corran goes, "what do i have to be jealous of, i'm mated!" and repeats his argument.

so this goes BACK AND FORTH and finally rune steps in and says "dude i can see both of you's points and where both of you fucked up. if you wanna challenge, let's go, we'll go to NYC. otherwise, SHUT UP AND GO HOME."

so they shutted up and went home. end THAT scene.

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okay, next up: the scene w/ eliza, aka the OH SHIT scene. this one shouldn't take long to type. the night corran told decker about noah and imogen, decker broke one of eliza's chairs. so now eliza's hiding out (cuz he broke her house too, later *LOL*) in...dadum, Eagle territory. i think it's cuz zoe lives there. decker makes her a new f'ing chair and brings it over.

she's sitting outside on the fire escape. he's like, "i brought you something. just gonna leave it here." she tells him to bring it up, and he bristles a bit but does. she asks him if he's gonna sit and he's like, "no, i'm just making this delivery." then he asks if she was gonna go home anytime soon and she gets all sarcastic and goes, "no, there are huge holes in the walls"

(actually, he nailed up plywood over the holes *LOL* cuz plywood is big and cheap)

he doesn't say anything, though. he's like, "night eliza. drink inside because the fire escape looks about ready to fall."

BEGIN! BAITING!

she's like, wtf do you care? oh right, you don't.

he's like, don't push.

she's like, or what, you'll kill me?

he's like, i might.

she's like, i thought you were better than a woman beater.

he's like, i try to be. i'm not always.

she's like, means you'd have to touch me. think you can get off your high horse long enough for that? (because previously, he always pulled away when she touched him, and told her about 3 different times and ways that he was taken and/or not interested)

he's like, don't. push.

she's like (verbatim quote), "So what do ya think? Gonna get all hard when you make me bleed?"

damon's like: Oh. My. God, he's in trouble now.

decker: 'shut up.'

eliza: "bite me."

decker: starts stomping off.

eliza: "you really that scared? you really that afraid to get close?"

decker: "SHUT. UP."

eliza (verbatim again): "Gonna make the mother bleed, Decker? You know you want to."

(all this while apparently eliza's really pissed. don't ask me...)

ok gotta show you these two posts *LOL*

Decker Rohl

Tue 08:41AM EST

His temper tears in half.

He turns and crosses the narrow confines of the fire escape. His boots clang across metal, two huge steps, and only fools and madmen would not know some twinge of terror. He grabs her and heaves her to her feet (hypocrite that he is: isn't this what he dragged Noah over hill and dale for?), and tall as she is, the tips of her toes can still touch ground when he's eye to unseeing eye with her.

i. should. make. you. bleed.

"This what you want?" Snarled, and he can be so steely quiet. He shakes her once, not nearly as hard as he could have, still hard enough to click her teeth. "Baitin' me like that - is this what you want?"

Eliza Bahn

Tue 08:52AM EST

Feel that temper flare. Smell the sweat, the grime, the blood, and the testosterone swirling in a dizzying mix that sticks to the back of the sinus and chokes all the way down into ragged lungs. Smell the ripple of fear that taunts the air, the trickle of perspiration, the scent of a woman.

Muscle ripples, pulled and lengthened, abused and tossed around like, hauled up like a rag doll. That would leave bruises... woman beater...

Close. Closer. Closest. No distance between their faces as he shoves his up into hers, spitting out snarling words.

No words, not just yet. They weren't appropriate at the moment, per say. Instead of words from her lips, warm breath billows around their faces, there is something less expected. More baiting, in its way.

Kiss like you mean it...

Never put your face this close, you don't know if the animals will bite... or stick their tongue down your throat. Hot, hard, pressed.

An arm twisted, a hand planted against his chest and pushing backwards, words muttered through clenched teeth against his mouth.

"You're. Touching. Me."

...which was a REALLY good post, but...HUH?

if you wanna see the rest, this one's up in my archive as "post traumatic stress syndrome", starting at 6:09EST (though i realize the times and days are all outta order...fuck i need a better archive *grump* or shit, i should just make the scene titles diff colors! yeah! i'll start doing that.)

anyway. so he kisses her back for a minute and then he's like, ask you a question. you care about your kids?

and she goes, duh.

and he goes, then find them a real father, and don't waste your time on me - implication being, i'm not gonna waste my time on you.

and off he goes.

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okay. last scenes! these are mostly with the pack. first there's one with james, where decker basically says noah is shitlisted because he tried to beat imogen up. end scene.

then earlier today, everyone's at eliza's. bizarrely enough, eliza has undergone the Great Bipolar Personality Shift and is now seething again. she tells Erik, the pack alpha, about how her kids were having nightmares, boohoo, and now james is all pissy cuz he likes kids. then in the narrative V's posting about how decker was being a hypocrite and grabbing her just like noah had grabbed imogen - conveniently leaving out about 2 hrs of baiting, as well as the kiss-me-you-fool bit.

meanwhile in ooc, trish is YAPPING again, basically making a martyr outta poor noah who hid among women and children. i don't really give a damn what chars think, but when players yap and stick it in their narrative, it annoys the HELL outta me.

however, scene was saved cuz erik was so damn cool *LOL* decker's like, 'was wondering when you'd show up to kick my ass.'

erik: "oh, is this where you have your fights? wait, i'll go get the kids. maybe they'll wanna watch. again."

decker's like, "they wouldn't have watched if noah hadn't been hiding."

(meanwhile one of those gypsy striders show up, having suddenly developed an overwhelming hatred of get, and think erik's non-get for a moment. so he's all narratively cheering erik on.)

erik: yeah fianna - tribe of cowards. and shit, look at the mess you let one of them drag you into again.

then erik turns to the gypsy, asks what he's looking for - turns out he's looking for noah. so erik's like, go look in there (waves at eliza's place). he goes. erik turns back to decker.

decker's like (totemphoned) - i'm not gonna grovel for dragging the fianna around a little, but i'll atone for the kids.

so erik's like, fine. then incarna had to go, so end that bit. basically, though, erik's gonna take decker to the atrocity realm to witness/live the nightmares of the children. drop some wisdom and honor, too. i think incarna was planning on having him do the Stone of Scorn rite on Noah, too.

***

then there's a brief scene w/ james that was pretty cool. james is pissed that decker endangered kids; decker's like, i wouldn't have if i didn't have to, but i did. sorry, those are my priorities: kick noah's ass for touching my girl first, worry about kids later.

james was all, where tf didja priorities like those!? - and it escalated from there. finally there was a brief tussle and then decker stomps off all pissy.

***

so, after that, trish continues to yap (she's been yapping on and off). there's a scene w/ eliza (decker basically asking her why tf she kissed him) which went on for a bit, and the Great Mood Shift happened again and suddenly eliza's all forgiving decker and stuff. V did more or less tell trish to shut up, though, so that was kinda cool, since i was about to rip trish a new one. heh.

noah shows up; the gypsy's there to offer him leadership of the gypsy strider pack, and is all if you need help beating someone up we're there. so noah's like, i'ma KEEEELL that corran bitch.

eliza finally answers decker with like a million reasons (cuz it'd piss you off, cuz i thought you'd let go, cuz it was the only way not to get more hurt, cuz i wanted to) and decker's like, sheeezus. thinks a while, then goes, "sorry about grabbing you, sorry about the kids, i'll keep bringing groceries but i don't think i should go inside anymore."

end that scene. and now you're all caught up.

***

DEAR GOD what a rant *LMAO* you better NOT have skimmed (much) cuz i did a hell lotta finger exercise typing this up! *LMAO*

night! i might start an email scene tomorrow or something. not now. it's fucking 5:30am.

-damon