Chaper 14: The Blessed

[Anya Louteius]

Anya looked up at him and allowed him to help her up. She smiled and wiped away her tears and then looked at him. "Thank you for wanting to help, but I assure you....there is not much you can do unless you can beat up a blessed and get away with it." She softly touched his shoulder and then decended down the stairs to hide amongst the people.

[Joseph "Jose" Ponce]

Jose watched her leave feeling aware of his own limitations, a feeling triggered by her words.

"Unless you can beat up a blessed and get away with it..."

Jose just looked at her vanish in this midst of the party and simply looked at the floor clearly upset.

I'm not even capable of helping a crying woman with her problems I'm so weak. The "blessed" lord over the and cause people suffering and I can't even help it.

Jose sighed and pushed his hand through his hair as he looked on back to the party.

I suppose it doesn't matter I'm here for a larger purpose and I should get to it. I'll complete it regardless of the "Blessed". I should find Isvara. That's the only way for me to help anyone right now.

Jose then walked down with his hands in his pockets calmly resuming his search for Isvara.

[Jack O. Trades]

Blinking twice his eyes grew very vacant as if distracted. His brow furrowed and he only shook his head putting a smile on only managing to mumble out "Excuse me if you would, need to see a man about a dog..." With a slight bow he turned on his heel seeming to skip lazily across the room. After each door he passed he poked his head within patted a part of the wall. As he left each room in his apparent search for something it took all he had not to laugh. This would be a perfect test for his new toy.

Getting tired of the search on the first floor he resumed his skipping towards the stairs to go up a floor. As he passed the crying woman he met her stare with a savage grin the fevered glint in his eyes returning for a brief moment before both grin and burning light vanished in an instance to continue his search through the rooms a floor upward.

[Anya Louteius]

Anya saw as the man in the purple suit passed her and she was a little frightened by his stare. She ignored it and walked on. But something told her that wouldn't be the last time they would meet. She walked over to the table and grabbed another bottle of water and started to drink it. She leaned against the table and waited for something to happen. If nothing happened, she would finish her concert and leave. That's all she really wanted.

[Isvara Sharma]

Isvara smiled at Li's comment.

"Too nice?" he chuckled, "Thanks for the advice. Coming from the Speaker it only reaffirms my suspicions on the big three. But its no problem. We are also a company that deals with gravity technology as well as anti-gravity. And anyone who has taken astrophysics would be able to infer what I mean."

He cut the talk before it went in a direction he didn't want it to. After a few minutes, following a scream, he found Jose at the party.

"Jose!" he called, "C'mere! Why you scream like a girl?!"

[Calithin Crest]

While talking to Tuesday and Annette I notice the scream from upstairs, but, I hate when people ruin my game and it's really not my problem... Or even particularly strange for that matter, so I just sit tight.

"Sure, sure... That sounds good. I'll make it a point to be there."

I take out a pen and scribble 'Moderator meeting-- next week' on my hand so that I don't forget.

"I don't think it's anything to be concerned about though. Atleast... I'm not. We've been through worse. My love for the economy is unconditional, anyway. I have the utmost faith in it. It's just a matter of... Planning. Fewer toxic assets, more trade. People worry too much."

[Joseph "Jose" Ponce]

Jose wandering around heard Isvara call out his name. Joking with him of course, just like the bastard.

"Isvara, you had my ass running all around the party and here you are talking to people and insulting my voice apparently."

Jose walked over still with the lingering thought of the woman from earlier but pushed it to the back of his mind. He wouldn't let show that he felt weak. He came over to Isvara noticing the other woman and food.

"Eating with this woman are we? Not talking her ear off with your nonsense are you? Haha, but I suppose I would too if she found the right subject."

Jose was reluctant to talk o the new woman out of the open, especially one that appeared as attractive as her but he urged himself to introduce himself.

"I should introduce my self Miss, I am Joseph a colleague and friend of Isvara. Forgive me if I am mistake but you are the Speaker of the World Economic Council right?"

[ronny]

"I used to dislike the smell when I first became his personal assistant, but I simply ignore it nowadays." Ronja reply.

"I can't complain too much about his smell or he would get mad at me or something...."

[Mollie Marionette]

Mollie nodded. "I enjoy reading as well. Are there any certain books that capture your attention?" She asked, before hearing some noise behind her.

She turned and saw that the next entertainer had arrived, actually, it sounded like she was just getting off the stage for a breif intermission.

"Lets go see whats going on inside." She suggests, feeling a little restless. She lead the way back inside Keito's mansion.

[Anya Louteius]

Anya was prepared to start again and she took a deep breath and shook everything that had happened off. She smiled and the band kicked in and she started her concert again. The thrill of the music pulsed through her and she felt the high she always felt while she performed. It was the escape she lived for.

She looked into the crowd and then she smiled and started a song she had recently sang at her concert in Asia. She waited for the response of the crowd, she fed off them, like she hoped they would feed off her music and come alive.

[Jack Kruschev]

I look right and left and realize that few people are really paying attention. I look around and count a few heads that seem interested and sigh.

Standing up on a chair, I yell, "Play louder! I love this song!"

In reality, I'd never even heard it and just wanted people to pay better attention.

[Anya Louteius]

Anya heard someone yell 'play louder' the double bass kicked in and the guitars started to scream and the musicians started to shred their instruments causing a metal orchaersta (sp?) sound. She laughed and spoke in the mic. "Loud enough?" She couldn't hear if they screamed anything back. She danced around on the stage moving and singing to really get into it and hopefully cause a mosh pit.

[Jack Kruschev]

I laugh and start clapping to whatever beat I can find in the music. I look around and some people start following my example.

"Sing, sing, sing," I start cheering as others cheer with me.

[Anya Louteius]

Anya smiled and spoke to the crowd. "Here's a song I did over in the Americas. Hope you enjoy it....they sure did." She let the music play and then she started her song.

((OOC: I'm singing this right now, so yeah lol))
"What's wrong with me?
Why do I feel like this?
I'm going crazy now

No more gas in the rear
Can't even get it started
Nothing heard, nothing said
Can't even speak about it
Out my life out my head
Don't want to think about it
Feels like I'm going insane
Yeah

It's a thief in the night
To come and grab you
It can creep up inside you
And consume you
A disease of the mind
It can control you
It's too close for comfort

Put on your break lights
We're in the city of wonder
Ain't gonna play nice
Watch out, you might just go under
Better think twice
Your train of thought will be altered
So if you must falter be wise
Your mind is in disturbia
It's like the darkness is the light
Disturbia
Am I scaring you tonight
Your mind is in disturbia
Ain't used to what you like
Disturbia
Disturbia

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Faded pictures on the wall
It's like they talkin' to me
Disconnectin' phone calls
The phone don't even ring
I gotta get out
Or figure this shit out
It's too close for comfort

It's a thief in the night
To come and grab you
It can creep up inside you
And consume you
A disease of the mind
It can control you
I feel like a monster

Put on your break lights
We're in the city of wonder
Ain't gonna play nice
Watch out, you might just go under
Better think twice
Your train of thought will be altered
So if you must falter be wise
Your mind is in disturbia
It's like the darkness is the light
Disturbia
Am I scaring you tonight
Your mind is in disturbia
Ain't used to what you like
Disturbia
Disturbia

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Release me from this curse I'm in
Trying to remain tame
But I'm struggling
If you can go,oh,oh,oh, uh ho
I think I'm going to oh, oh, oh

Put on your break lights
We're in the city of wonder
Ain't gonna play nice
Watch out, you might just go under
Better think twice
Your train of thought will be altered
So if you must falter be wise
Your mind is in disturbia
It's like the darkness is the light
Disturbia
Am I scaring you tonight
Your mind is in disturbia
Ain't used to what you like
Disturbia
Disturbia"

When she finished she kicked the mic stand and spun it and stopped it with her foot and she smiled. This was fun...

[Bambi Engel]

Bambi sighed after Annette snapped and stormed off, probably in the direction of the kitchen. She didn't know the layout of the mansion very well. Dinner started as usual with Scrag's opening which she listened to quietly, though this year she looked at the Master instead of keeping her head bowed.

She had never really noticed how he looked. In fact, she preferred to look every other direction but people. She was surprised when she found herself actually studying people's faces. Did they all attend every year like her, or were they new to this year's Banquet?

She entertained herself with wonderings of the other guests as she ate a small portion of food idly. She didn't enjoy quality food often, but she had a habit to only eat small portions in public. She was too paranoid of doing something clumsy while eating or looking silly to eat more.

So far, the Banquet had actually went better than usual. No one was particular bothering her. Still, she felt something lurking in the back of her mind, a sort of empty feeling... She sighed mentally once more. Figures, the night turns out to be going alright and she still can't be joyed.

She heard the scream and other commotion, but she had grown used to such things. Still, she felt a tug toward the direction of the sound, but convinced herself other people would help who ever the scream at came from. At least, she hoped so...

A bit after that, music began from a band Bambi had never seen. She rather liked their style, though. It wasn't too bad of a song.