Setup #1 Plot Hooks

[RisuChan]

Brainstormish bits for people to pick up or ignore as they choose....

Possibility for Cain:
--The Quest for Poison Ingredients
(Drano from under the sink? the horrors of dealing with the unwashed public at a Tokyo convenience store? pesticides from a lawn and garden store? etc etc...)
--Solving The Inevitable Mysteries
(which are probably going to start showing up on their own but I'm also going to start seeding the place with them sooner or later... ^_~)

Possibilities for Jezebel:
--The Quest to Make All the Inhabitants of the House (or of Tokyo) Vegetarian
(perpetually raiding the refrigerator and going and holding funeral rites for any meat products found therein? getting someone (Cassian?) to go picketing/paintbombing/something really nasty to the meat section of the three nearest convenience stores? etc)
--Dueling Psychoses
(what happens when you put Jezebel in the same room as some of the other more notable psychotics rambling around the place? Rociel? Blanche? *muffling self from giving a future Ludwig spoiler here* Kaine's producer? Rion's teacher Suruga-sensei? There's a whole lot of man-hating and/or humanity-hating available...)

Possibilities for Suou:
--The Quest for Ellone
(and how amazingly Merryweather looks like a younger version of her... which I'm about to go play on when I get done downloading ideas here... ^_~)
--Do The Others Know Or Not?
(who knows they're vampires and who thinks they're just eccentric playboys who hang around in the penthouse and the basement?)

Possibilities for yet-unclaimed characters:

Blanche and Rociel: "All right, just who IS the fairest of them all, b*tch?" The beauty pageant to end all beauty pageants...

Merry: Just how much trouble CAN I get myself into before Big Brother catches up with me? Being a Kaine groupie seems like a promising way to start finding trouble...

Katan, Wilhelm, Cassian, and so on: The Sidekicks' Lounge (where people commiserate about life with their tyrannical demanding and/or insane bosses - Sakura's the bartender; Riff's a regular there too)

^___^ Off to finish what I started earlier if I can do it in the 45 min before I've got to be somewhere else...

[Alter]

I love the beauty pageant idea! ;D, well even though I assumes Blanche would win by default (she's a woman and majority of the characters are boys), not mentioning that all the AS cast would definitely not choose Rociel, thankyouverymuch ^^; of course if Rociel decided to put his astral powers into use, it would make a major difference....
Oh, and I just realize we had BloodHound guys+Raphael+Kaine+Prince Ludwig (=all the womanizer) together in same house, uh.oh, women beware! ;D

Jezebel seriously thinks to sabotage the refridg, yes, I think he would delighted to do that^^

[RisuChan]

^______^ Crystallyne and Carole are evil evil people...

The upshot is, everybody brace yourselves for an upcoming second round of envelopes in the mailboxes!

Only these aren't going to be from Yuki-sensei.

Moegi is going to be plotting a Saturday night pool party...

Saturday night *their* time, not ours. ^^;;; I figure I'll set it to start sometime next week in our timeline, so that there's time for people to run around stressing about bathing suits and/or the lack thereof.... ^______^

[Carole]

Evil...me...? Nooo waayyyy XD

Pool party...?? Poor Cain T_T

[Crystallyne]

*polishes her nails nonchalantly*

Why, thank you!

~____^


~Crystal
(who takes that as a high compliment coming from Risu-chan XD )

[Alter]

Pool party?

uh.oh, anybody knew what Victorian swimsuit looks like? (I can't decided whether Jezebel could swim or not.... )

I' m imagining he would go there just to see Cain humiliated (uh, the scars on his back, or maybe because Merry want to go--she might want to see Kaine in swimsuit perhaps? *sly grin*), then someone drowning, and Jezzie being the doctor he is (albeit insanely morbid doctor), and forced to do a CPR (do they already have the CPR method in Victorian age?)

I'm evil ;D

Jezebel: no, you're Sadist

[RisuChan]

Alter: For this setup it doesn't matter what a Victorian swimsuit looked like or whether they had CPR -- because although they've still got their original minds & attitudes, they ALSO have access to the modern world outside. ^___^ (Or some of them did until their visiting passes got revoked anyway... ::whistles:: )

So Dr. J can wear anything you want him to, and can know anything you want him to. (And with Delilah's interest in remaking people into other people, cf. all the face transplants going around @_@, I'd be more surprised if he HADN'T studied modern plastic surgery methods and the like...)

General FYI: Men's Victorian bathing suits were pretty ridiculous-looking. They covered about the same area as a T-shirt and pair of bike shorts would, but nearly every last one of them was patterned in these tacky really wide horizontal stripes that makes a person look like a refugee barbershop pole or something...

I don't know off the top of my head what a woman's bathing suit looks like and I suspect it might be because women probably weren't allowed to have them (what with the whole "scandalizing society if you show so much as an ankle" level of repression...)

anyway, Merry's definitely going to go after a *modern* bathing suit; I'm already imagining Cain's outrage at that... ^_~

(Carole, we love torturing you! ^___^ And I'm sure Cain won't have to show off the scars at the pool party -- whether he decides he wants to swim or not, there are all kinds of costuming options available, including either yukata or a less-tacky remix on the Victorian swimsuit idea... ^_~ I think he'd look really hot in a deep indigo yukata myself; I like guys in kimono... quite fond of that random shot of Dr J in a kimono too... ^_~)

[cutelittlekitty]

Pooooooool party!!!! yay hehe... suou can't wait... to see all the lovely ladies in their swimsuits. hmmm... gonna have to look through my repertoire of flowery flattery

[Carole]

RisuChan said:

(Carole, we love torturing you! ^___^

I can tell ¬¬

Cain..? In a victorian bathing suit? Not while I'm around! I do believe the only reason Cain will attend it to keep an eye on Merry. Otherwise he would have "accidently not have seen" the invitation XD And I also have a feeling he'll opt for a yukata...

And I've got my eye on you Alter/Jezebel.

[Crystallyne]

Okay, people, this is what happens when it's 2:30 am and no one is in the channel to talk to. XD

Well, Carole, I really put in some hooks for you to pick up on, or not. And Risu-chan, if this doesn't spur more trouble for Riff, I give up. XD

By the way, Luccia is really really really looking forward to seeing Cain in a yukata. And maybe Merry and Luccia can plot together about bathing suits (somehow I see Luccia in a modest one-piece XD ).

~Crystal
(who really, really shouldn't be up right now but had a fantastic idea and wanted to share it with someone only no one was on the channel so look what happened!)

[RisuChan]

(pant pant)

Okay, got 2 of the 3 posts that had to be done, done, between lunch & after work -- got another meeting to go to, maybe I can turn the placeholder into a real story snip after that, or maybe tomorrow lunch...

More plot hooks!

Suou as Kaine's stunt double when Merry decides to drag them out somewhere (like maybe the top of Tokyo Tower) to do something insanely dangerous ("but they'd look so hot with all their hair and trenchcoats blowing around in the wind!") (and maybe they run into yet ANOTHER Clampverse "Tokyo Tower Must Be Destroyed" film shoot? ^^;;;;;;;;;;;;;

The Unexplored Depths of the Basement:
--Sakura's Friday Night "Sidekicks Bar"
--Host club guys running the next Krankenhaus from there (shh -- but after all, income is income...)
--Where exactly IS Rociel hiding anyway?
--Any random beasties from AS or elsewhere making a lair down there?

(BTW, I'm declaring that nobody actually knows how big the basement is or how many layers down it goes... it's one of those Escher-space things. ^_~ It also has a secret passage that connects to one of those trendy Tokyo underground shopping malls, so that the vampires don't have to go out in daylight in order to get things... for all I know, you may have to be able to do the vampire transform-into-mist shtick or some such in order to use said secret passage, in order to keep Dr. J. and Alexis somewhat restrained...)

hey, I should tuck some of this into the floor use post...

later, though; gotta go now...

[Crystallyne]

XD *gasping from laughing too hard* Risu-chan, are you trying to kill me or help me? XD
-referring to Risu-chan's fresh schemes for Luccia from Merry

Okay, so we have a way to hook Rion in, now. Besides, she is probably extremely comfortable in the "real" world outside the apartment buildings, so she could play errand-girl sometimes, right? (She does live up in the Bloodhound Floor with the vampires, too, doesn't she?)

Here's an idea for some more people to show up:
-How about we have Ludwig snooping where he shouldn't be and finding the "misplaced" letters? Or anyone that's not found a way to be introduced yet?

This could go either way: Good person finds them, mistakenly delivers them XD or bad person finds them, has lots of psychopathic fun anyway. Maybe Moegi finds them when he is delivering his pool party invites. (Really, for Riff to be so careless as to NOT destroy these letters. XD )

~Crystal

PS: Do I play the flute? hmmm, this could be fun. . .

[RisuChan]

I think Moegi's found out about the Nook of Letter-Vanishing, and is going to raid the undelivereds for blackmail potential. Riff's a little too ethical to have done anything more than "misplace" someone's mail -- but Moegi has figured out that those letters usually contain something meant to keep people in line, and his general ethical view goes "if you got away with it, it was a good idea." ^_^;;

And Merry has no idea whether or not Luccia plays the flute. She just volunteered her to do it anyway. If Luccia doesn't actually play the flute, she can hold one and look dramatic or something. Of course, Merry hasn't bothered to *explain* this rationale to anyone else...

^_^;;; Have people gotten the idea that I trust kids just about as far as I can throw the little monsters?

[Crystallyne]

Yay! We get to read more of Yuki-sensei's letters! ^______^
Thanks for explaining about the flute, Risu-chan.

Oh, and this is completely off topic, but anyway:
When I first read that part about the flute, a quote from something completely different popped into my mind.

"And this one time, at band camp . . ." XD

Yeah, I know, that's really really sick, but I can't help it. Ever since I first saw that movie, I always think of that line whenever I think about flutes (or someone mentions flutes . . .)

Having said that, I've decided that Luccia most definitely does not play the flute. XD

If you don't know what I'm talking about, just ignore this post. I'm going to go figure out how Luccia responds to Cain's post now.

~Crystal

PS: That is definitely giving me more ideas. Do they even have movies at the apartments? Well, they'd have to, wouldn't they, if they had computers (gotta love Moegi's obsession with Photoshop XD). Just a thought. Rion might invite someone to the movies with her (to show Luccia how to do it or something like that).

[Alter]

*imagines Jezebel with horizontal stripes T shirts and bike shorts*

*explodes laughing and keel over her desk* Oh the image, the image--my poor brain (and my poor stomach to add ;D)

okay, that settled it, Jez would definitely wear his suit

unless, there're some 'dress code' here, eh Moegi? *nudges nudges* (you sure, he's not related to Yuki-sensei? *oh the evillness* ;D)

is Krakenhaus only accepted women? wonder myself if Rociel comes into view with his (rather feminine) dress and asks "am I beautiful?"...wonder if that could fool anybody ;D

almost forgot, Adrian Clay from BnD vs Krakenhaus host (the teacher who actually a murderer and targeted male prostitutes vs male prostitutes whose actually vampires)...fufufu, interesting possibilities indeed^^