Jack wanted to play hard to get. Iris complied. "The whores aren't going anywhere." She stated dismissively, "This opportunity might." Running a hand through her hair, she lined the strap of her dress. Whatever vices had sway over the man's decisions, if Iris' judgement of him was correct, good business sense should prevail. "Not only will you be making a score, but striking a blow to the competition in the process." ”People tend to become very dangerous when backed into a corner.” She let slip a warning, tone casual, cold emptiness behind the eyes. ”Don’t fret, it wasn’t a bad idea. Just not right for me.” Not desperate, or stupid. Just fed up. She relaxed her posture and took a playfully long step in the sand. She may have developed a poker face worthy of Torchline's most exclusive casinos, but it did nothing to hide her excitement tonight, as she seemed unable to stand still for more than a few minutes. His latter request was a given, it was the former that had the the Acquarone heiress intrigued. Who or what did the Sokolovs have on their ship that Jack Barclay wanted? She folded her arms behind her back and observed. ”I’ll consider it, if it doesn’t endanger my plans. Go on.” |
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Wanderer
Age: 23 | Height: 176 | Race: Accepted | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Stormbreak Level: 1 - Strg: 5 - Dext: 18 - Endr: 8 - Luck: 15 - Int:
Played by: Nell
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11-16-2020, 11:53 PM
Captain of the Ark ✓
Age: 35 | Height: 5'10 | Race: Abandoned | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Torchline Level: 7 - Strg: 16 - Dext: 21 - Endr: 18 - Luck: 7 - Int: SEVEN - Mythical - Sear Cat
Played by: Honey
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11-18-2020, 07:28 PM
i want to taste you again "A'right, you've made your point," Jack drawls, almost rolling his eyes at her. He takes one last draw from his cigarette and flicks the butt onto the beach, swiping sand over it to both extinguish it and hide the evidence of their being here. He watches her, stock still in comparison as she paces around, as her thoughts ricochet through ideas and plans and her feelings about them. Were there anyone else around Jack might have to pull back a little, but here on this lonely stretch of the Rainbow Road, he can let it all wash over him.
A sharp smile tugs at his lips. "I wouldn't suggest it if it would endanger your plan," he points out. "After all, if you end up caught or dead, neither of us get what we want. It's a small thing. Every now and then a particular little jewel gets added to the stakes - only when they're already high. They call it the Heart of the Sea - you'll know it when you see it." Jack gives her a brief description - a pearl the size of a coin, that shines bright as a diamond. "I'd like you to win it for me, if you please." like a secret or a sin JACK
Jack being an Abandoned is common knowledge these days, however his Telepathy remains a well-kept secret:
Magic: Passive Telepathy | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 30ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post. Also branded with a small star tattoo beneath his left eye.
Wanderer
Age: 23 | Height: 176 | Race: Accepted | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Stormbreak Level: 1 - Strg: 5 - Dext: 18 - Endr: 8 - Luck: 15 - Int:
Played by: Nell
Change author: Posts: 114 | Total: 163 MP: 85
11-22-2020, 08:17 PM
Captain of the Ark ✓
Age: 35 | Height: 5'10 | Race: Abandoned | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Torchline Level: 7 - Strg: 16 - Dext: 21 - Endr: 18 - Luck: 7 - Int: SEVEN - Mythical - Sear Cat
Played by: Honey
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11-24-2020, 08:30 PM
i want to taste you again "I'm quite a man," Jack retorts with a smirk slanted in her direction. Strolling forward at last, he moves to join her at the edge of the Rainbow Road, staring off into waves black as ink, lit up only by streaks of moonlight. Raising a brow across at Iris - the stakes kept growing and the payments kept creeping - he inclines his head as if to say that her request is a reasonable one. And it is, if only because without it, the whole plan thus far begins to unravel.
"Name it, then - what would your payment be for this extra work, if that's what we're calling it?" This is turning up to be quite the night for the smuggler. He'll have to do his best to make time for this suddenly lucrative opportunity amongst the rest of his work on his ship. "Unfortunately I ain't in the business of pleasure cruises." like a secret or a sin JACK
Jack being an Abandoned is common knowledge these days, however his Telepathy remains a well-kept secret:
Magic: Passive Telepathy | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 30ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post. Also branded with a small star tattoo beneath his left eye.
Wanderer
Age: 23 | Height: 176 | Race: Accepted | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Stormbreak Level: 1 - Strg: 5 - Dext: 18 - Endr: 8 - Luck: 15 - Int:
Played by: Nell
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12-03-2020, 05:28 PM
Captain of the Ark ✓
Age: 35 | Height: 5'10 | Race: Abandoned | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Torchline Level: 7 - Strg: 16 - Dext: 21 - Endr: 18 - Luck: 7 - Int: SEVEN - Mythical - Sear Cat
Played by: Honey
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12-04-2020, 06:00 PM
i want to taste you again "And you're bait," Jack retorts easily, finding it rather to be a compliment as he's called a tease. She glances sidelong at him and is already encroaching into his space again; this time there's no knife, but he assumes she knows that she's playing with fire by dancing along such a fine boundary line.
Her terms, whilst relatively simple, will be a bitch to organise if she wants things to be discreet; the Ark only sails out every other season, but that's the joy of being captain of the ship - Jack can do as he pleases and make up the rest. He's sure he can come up with some bullshit as to why he has to sail out and give a signal at the beginning of each season. And the other? It sounds like quite the lascivious term, but Jack can see through it enough to ignore the stirring of interest within him, he thinks. "No boots," he says, like that's his term in response, already slipping his belongings from his pockets - knife, matches, cigarettes and a length of twine. Then the clothes come off, and he flings his still-warm shirt over her face before bending to the rest. "Clothes ain't gonna make you any less what you are," he remarks. like a secret or a sin JACK
Jack being an Abandoned is common knowledge these days, however his Telepathy remains a well-kept secret:
Magic: Passive Telepathy | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 30ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post. Also branded with a small star tattoo beneath his left eye.
Wanderer
Age: 23 | Height: 176 | Race: Accepted | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Stormbreak Level: 1 - Strg: 5 - Dext: 18 - Endr: 8 - Luck: 15 - Int:
Played by: Nell
Change author: Posts: 114 | Total: 163 MP: 85
12-04-2020, 09:33 PM
Captain of the Ark ✓
Age: 35 | Height: 5'10 | Race: Abandoned | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Torchline Level: 7 - Strg: 16 - Dext: 21 - Endr: 18 - Luck: 7 - Int: SEVEN - Mythical - Sear Cat
Played by: Honey
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12-06-2020, 04:53 PM
i want to taste you again "Yeah," Jack replies easily, "bait." With a smirk, he either ignores the eyes on him or feels just as comfortable under a gaze as out of it, stripping off his pants and thrusting them across at her. Lacing his boots once more, the request leaves him wearing only underwear and moonlight; Jack slips the knife into his boot, ties the twine around the opposite ankle, and tucks a single cigarette and match behind his ear for later.
Looking Iris up and down, as if noticing her notice, he can only scoff. "Get a few more years experience under your belt, then maybe you'll be more'n bait," he suggests; for all of her swagger and ideas, Jack's been at this game since he was her age. Perhaps that's why he likes her - she reminds him a bit of him. Except filthy rich. "We done here?" like a secret or a sin JACK
Jack being an Abandoned is common knowledge these days, however his Telepathy remains a well-kept secret:
Magic: Passive Telepathy | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 30ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post. Also branded with a small star tattoo beneath his left eye.
Wanderer
Age: 23 | Height: 176 | Race: Accepted | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Stormbreak Level: 1 - Strg: 5 - Dext: 18 - Endr: 8 - Luck: 15 - Int:
Played by: Nell
Change author: Posts: 114 | Total: 163 MP: 85
Captain of the Ark ✓
Age: 35 | Height: 5'10 | Race: Abandoned | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Torchline Level: 7 - Strg: 16 - Dext: 21 - Endr: 18 - Luck: 7 - Int: SEVEN - Mythical - Sear Cat
Played by: Honey
Change author: Posts: 1,088 | Total: 16,749 MP: 3601
12-18-2020, 05:11 PM
i want to taste you again "My, you don't know what the string's for? And here I thought you knew it all," Jack drawls, setting off after her in nothing but boots and underwear, in scars and tattoos and jewellery. He cracks his knuckles slowly as they make their way down the Rainbow Road, and whilst it's not obvious, he's doing his best to let his prints match those he made approaching their meeting spot. "Withhold it or give it - don't make a difference to me," he mutters; the day her opinion means something to him, he'll be expecting more than an assessment from her.
Blue eyes slide across to her as she continues, and Jack can't help the chuckle that comes rumbling out of his chest. "Fake my death, sail me away from Torchline, give me a signal every year to say everything's fine, fetch my luggage, give me a corpse to look at. Anythin' else while I'm at it, princess?" He raises his eyebrows in a warning; whatever it is she's offering in exchange for his services, it's quickly wading into the realms of not worth the hassle. Stepping up off sand and onto stone, Jack turns to give her a lingering look, painted in moonlight. "Get your own luggage, and leave the dirty work to me, or the only corpse I'll be agein' will be yours. Now have a lovely night, won't you?" And yes. The rest of his cigarettes and matches are in his pockets. like a secret or a sin JACK
Jack being an Abandoned is common knowledge these days, however his Telepathy remains a well-kept secret:
Magic: Passive Telepathy | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 30ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post. Also branded with a small star tattoo beneath his left eye.
Wanderer
Age: 23 | Height: 176 | Race: Accepted | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Stormbreak Level: 1 - Strg: 5 - Dext: 18 - Endr: 8 - Luck: 15 - Int:
Played by: Nell
Change author: Posts: 114 | Total: 163 MP: 85
01-02-2021, 06:03 PM
Captain of the Ark ✓
Age: 35 | Height: 5'10 | Race: Abandoned | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Torchline Level: 7 - Strg: 16 - Dext: 21 - Endr: 18 - Luck: 7 - Int: SEVEN - Mythical - Sear Cat
Played by: Honey
Change author: Posts: 1,088 | Total: 16,749 MP: 3601
01-02-2021, 08:40 PM
i want to taste you again "It's a deal," Jack confirms, not bothering to make any further comment about pleasure cruises or the like. The Ark is not in the business of casual trips, and he and Iris have already laid their cards on the table - as many as they're willing to show, anyway. As for the rest - well, that's a dance they'll be dancing for some time yet. What with getting a corpse and ageing it appropriately, they'll absolutely be meeting again.
Given that there's nothing else to say, and that he's standing in his boots and his underwear on the beach in the middle of the night, Jack takes the opportunity to bid her adieu. "Until next time, lad." He uses the term on purpose, assuming that the next time he sees Iris properly (her trip on the casino aside), she certainly won't be looking like this. But that doesn't mean he looks back when he walks away, still strolling in the prints he made when he arrived - when he isn't walking on the stones, anyway. ~FIN like a secret or a sin JACK
Jack being an Abandoned is common knowledge these days, however his Telepathy remains a well-kept secret:
Magic: Passive Telepathy | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 30ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post. Also branded with a small star tattoo beneath his left eye. | |||||
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