[identity profile] trurabblerouser.livejournal.com
"A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own." --Thomas Mann

While Matt hadn't to this day put such a saying to paper, he'd thought as much most of his life. After all, it wasn't the dead man who had to bury the body or arrange matters with the gravedigger or leave flowers on the grave. The dead man was dead, as cogniscent of trouble as a doornail...

Or so he'd thought.

Then he'd died and he'd ended up here and his perception of everything from top to bottom had been utterly flipped round. Now he was dead and he had to see the look in his brother's face when he woke up from it here and he'd had to watch Dick blame himself for it and he'd had to write something to give to those left behind instead of letting them figure out their own destinies. To this day, he didn't know if he'd written it to comfort them or himself.

He didn't want to think about it.

But now he's looking at that door and thinking on little Patrick, his nephew who was doing so well with his letters. He was young yet, but bright, and while he's sure the tyke wouldn't be reading for some years, he figures he's done right by him. Read to him. Got to meet him, which is probably the only thing he'll thank the place for when all is said and done. That's why he's looking at the door.

Looking... and hoping Dick comes by as they've things to discuss.
[identity profile] trurabblerouser.livejournal.com
Matt Truman isn't seen around much.

Mostly this has to do with the fact that he hasn't been around much. True, he's dead, that's to be sure; he could remember dying down to the most terrifying little detail. But he hasn't been about the bar. There's reason for this, not that he'd much like anyone knowing it, so his presence here is for a reason.

He's looking at the door.
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Matt is in a booth, facedown on the table... dead.

...considering he's been dead since he came in, this isn't really a huge surprise to most people (especially since that sort of thing happens in Milliways all the time), but he's not moving too much. At least, it doesn't look that way unless you look really carefully and notice that his far shoulder is shifting up and down.

He's writing. Somewhat privately. With an improvised 'pen'.

Feel free to interrupt him, though, especially if you might be checking on him. He's so nice to people who check on him.

*cough*
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Matt Truman is enjoying his breakfast and staring at an envelope on the table. He'd finished his letter and now it was just a matter of finding his damnably difficult younger brother and getting it brought to the right men...



Garion is out back in the shade of a tree, his eyes closed and his body seemingly lifeless. The shadows at the edge of the tree, however, seem to be moving rather strangely, stretching and changing with no reference to the faint movements of the tree itself.



Darien is flopped on one of the couches, visible and everything. There seems to be part of a breakfast on the table nearby, half finished off. He is, however, back asleep.



Hephaestos is in the bar, working on something in a booth. Is it... a plumbing fixture?
[identity profile] krazyglusurgeon.livejournal.com
Garion is downstairs. He'd come down earlier for a morning run, had his breakfast right after and then gotten ambushed by a little boy and his wolf. As such, all three ended up on the couch near the fire and because Garion had gotten up a little too early, as had Geran, both had fallen asleep again. Wolf looks mildly aggravated with this turn of events and seems to be looking at Garion's foot speculatively. Feel free to do the wolf a favor and bump the sleeping royalty back awake.

Cooper's at the bar, having breakfast. If you were expecting a long story on how he got there and what he's doing there and how he's doing, you'll just have to ask. He's a bit busy eating a bit of bacon at the moment.

Matt seems to have found whatever muses help dead rabblerousers as he's got a sizeable amount on his page, his letter to his still-living compatriots. The fact that he's been sucking down this Irish Breakfast for two nights past to get it done is another matter entirely.

Creedy-- is MIA.

Nick of all people is sitting downstairs. What the vampire is doing awake at this time is anyone's guess, but he's got a cup of breakfast in a surprisingly cheery sort of mug sitting on the table in front of him. He's got a book in front of him, as well as a red pen. Dante the puppy is in his lap, getting scritched absently every few minutes in between bouts of scratchy writing on the book. Nick's editing again...

Darien seems to be doing well enough. At least, for the moment. The glasses are gone even if he's dressed as if they weren't (but really, had there even BEEN a change?) and he's got coffee in front of him along with some toast. He's not really awake yet and he's still in pajamas, as a matter of fact, but he'll respond to prodding. You might even get something amusing out of him before he's fully functional.

Sir Apropos has decided that his mun is allowed to give him an entrance post this morning, as he is far too groggy at this hour of the morning to attempt to be even mildy acidic. As such, this post will be basi--OUCH. Ahem, that is... it's pretty simple. There's a lame man with a rather ornate staff sitting at the bar itself having breakfast and reading over some sort of--oh, you're reading that too? Neat. I thought it was good bu--YES, I'm getting on with it. AHEM. He's over there at the bar having breakfast. Poke him at your own risk.

Liir is downstairs, a baby in one arm and a book in the other. The book in question is brightly colored, more so than any book from his own world, and apparently interesting. He seems interested, anyway. Tea, toast, and a stubbed out cigarette in an ash tray complete the little scene near the fireplace. Trindle seems to be asleep, or at least content not to be fussy; botherable, certainly.

Multipup

Sep. 14th, 2006 11:03 am
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Creedy is out back, enjoying the cool fall breeze, the soon-to-be-gone green of the grass and the waving of the trees. A black cat has curled up near his feet, though there's no telling whose she is as her master isn't about and doesn't seem to be outside. He doesn't mind much, though. The cat gets scritched every so often in between bites of breakfast and he'll be happy for an interruption.

Cooper is inside at the bar having a drink. Of tea. And a good cold breakfast. He's not really the talkative type, but you're welcome to try.

Matt is in one of the booths, still working on a letter. He can't seem to get the wording quite right, or fit his meaning to a single page and it's driving him a little up the wall. For a man who used words so powerfully, he's beginning to wonder if this IS hell if only for the writer's block.

[ooc: mun has to attend meeting; back in an hour or so] BACK!

MULTIPUP!

Aug. 17th, 2006 08:33 pm
[identity profile] krazyglusurgeon.livejournal.com
Cooper is in. Surprising, yes perhaps, but not exactly. It's another place to get a drink, and one where he knows that he won't be late afterwards no matter how long he spends, and as patrons go here, he's on the normal side of things (if you ignore his status as the lone human survivor of a werewolf attack) so he shouldn't cause anything resembling a buzz. He's got a pint of Guinness on the bar that he's working on and a sudoku puzzle that's seen better days.

Matt Truman of all people is also about, his head bowed over a booth table with a pen and parchment spread out in front of him. He's writing something, something important it seems, but he'll be happy to be disturbed. His mind's a little cloudy on the wording and he could use a distraction.

Garion of Riva is settled, as a wolf, by the fireplace. He's not sleeping but he is resting some. He would like some company, though anyone who flinches at the presence of a wolf--

Let us hope they like rutabaga, that's all.

And me? Sir Apropos of Nothing? Yes, I'd be the one telling you all of this and of course inviting you to bother them. Don't worry, I'll drop the omnipotent narrator hat off on my way out but I'm really just helping out, you see. Being a good neighbor, so to speak. I am soon to be a married man, after all, and a man does eventually have to settle down.

Like right now, I'm settling down for dinner by the Observation Window to indulge my daily craving for schadenfreude. That's not an invitation to speak to me, just so that you know, but you'll probably take it as such just to spite me.

Or not take it as such just to spite spiting me.

No, I don't know if that second to last word is a word. Look it up if you want to be so damned picky about it.
[identity profile] trurabblerouser.livejournal.com
Matt's at the bar.

He's eating his breakfast. It's a good breakfast.





...and now you know why they wrote books about his brother.
[identity profile] and-far-away.livejournal.com
Sharpe's in the bar, sitting in a corner with his sword across his knees, making it ready for the trip to Wells' world.

It's been hanging on a wall for months. It needs sharpening.
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Sharpe is sitting at a table somewhere in the bar, copying out the writing he did yesterday so that people who aren't him can actually read it.

The paragraph he's currently working on starts:

I made Ben Perkins a Chosen Man because he was a bloody good shot and because he saved my life. He was fourteen.

Feel free to come chat, interrupt, or read over his shoulder.
[identity profile] trurabblerouser.livejournal.com
Matt Truman is in the bar.

He's having a drink.

...well, that's about it, really. He's a simple man.
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Sharpe emerges from wherever he spent the night, probably a room in the staff quarters, looking slightly the worse for wear.

Without pausing, he heads straight across the room and out through the front door. Ten minutes or so later, he comes back in, dripping - apparently he felt the need to dunk his head in the trough at home.

With a brief stop at the Bar, he makes for a booth. And, slowly and with much crossing-out, he starts to write.
[identity profile] and-far-away.livejournal.com
The door opens... and it seems Sharpe wasn't expecting it to open here right this moment, because he's not alone when he walks in.

He's going slowly and carefully, for reasons that become clear when he gets all the way in... and so does the very small boy clinging to his hand and toddling after him.

Welcome to Milliways, Patrick Lassan.
[identity profile] trurabblerouser.livejournal.com
It's the same every time, the same trepidation and the same suspicion. Thus it is with the same step that he makes his way down, the cautious and untrusting gait more like a nervous horse than that of a man of Matt Truman's bravery. A moment's glance around in the hopes of catching Dick about but when he doesn't find him with that passing look, he heads for the bar to order himself a breakfast.

He had work to look for today.
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He walks down slowly, as if not quite sure what'll be there. When one is newly dead, one fears heading down far more than one fears heading up but he does in fact make it to the main bar. Another few steps gets him to the bar counter proper and then he's ordering a meal, neat as you please, and taking the bites slowly as if afraid they might disappear as readily as they appeared.

[ooc: in and out due to groceries and parentals, but I'll answer your tag]
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The door opens... and a man tumbles in. He's wet, soaked to the bone, and the front of his shirt is dyed a pale red.

Blood washed out somewhat by the stream.

There's no movement for a moment, nothing at all, before the eyes blink and a trembling hand moves to the shirt front to feel for a now-absent hole in his flesh.

"Bloody hell..."

And his finger's through the hole the shot made, wiggling around as he stares at it.