mattersverymuch: (ɂ that come & have a go with me)
2014-01-21 10:18 pm

18 ɂ text & spam

text, day one of port

[Text, because sound can be a quick recipe for disaster in a place like this; sent out as soon as the thrumming in his bones tells him where they've come. This is profitable, he thinks, but does not advertise this line of thought as blatantly as he once might have.]

This has been my home for hundreds of years, and I know how to survive.

[That's all. He'll let people come to him, or he'll go to them - or let it stand as a boast.]

spam, throughout port & wibbly time

[There isn't time to touch every part of London Below as he wants to. He must skim everything, getting a blurry view of what he's known for so long without the ability to zoom in.]

[He stays at Market from start to finish, trying to ascertain whether or not he is a stranger in this Below (and he is, which stings in a way that a lost connection to a person never has), and then blending in terrifically well. He trades for Knacks and nightmares, notable as the man walking around Regents Park with a sack of sweaters slung over his shoulder. If there are alliances to make, he makes them, because time is obviously of the essence.]

[Then he hops trains, one after another after another for a full day. The sound of their movement makes him smile in a way that almost isn't mean, but not quite,]

[Other than that, he can be found in the light places and the dark, from the perpetual twilight under Mornington Crescent to the bright animal dim of Oxford Circus to the dimmest and most familiar sewer; he acquaints himself with everyone he can from the Barge who now think they belong here. He learns who they would have been if circumstances had been different, and likes them better as a result of this possibility.]
mattersverymuch: (ɂ seem to get smaller at the nose)
2013-03-05 02:25 pm

o5 ɂ voice + private

-- Oxford Circus. Join me.

[He starts without explanation, because the person he's addressing knows exactly who she is, and then laughs.]

Have you ever played with pigeons? Slower, messier. Rats are quicker and cleverer but have the disadvantage of short legs and no wings. Although I imagine they'd make things more interesting regardless. Rats generally do.

Would never have let that happen. That's why pigeons are second choice. You're welcome, by the way. Again. It was a lovely few days. Practically a holiday. Even though I nearly got injured.

[private: dean]

You deserved that, retroactively.

[private: castiel]

[pleasantly:] In the future, find an alternate solution.


( ooc; mornington crescent. and though he's inviting iris in specifically, he left it open so that a) people familiar could try to beat him and b) people unfamiliar could ask about it. fair warning: he knows a lot more stations than you do. )
mattersverymuch: (ɂ you gave me life)
2013-01-28 07:13 pm

o3 ɂ spam

[Confusion is not a natural state of the marquis de Carabas, and he would hesitate to term what he is currently experiencing as confusion. After all, one can experience two contrasting reactions; one of them will be less adaptive than the other and thus will be dismissed.]

[Thus it is that he pushes away his jealousy, his (in truth and fairness, neither of which he has or wants to give away) fury, at the fact that someone, he doesn't know who but someone, has power at their fingertips that he had, would still have were he at home. Clumsy and inelegant, crude, no showmanship - but it's power, and that's what he misses.]

[He focuses instead on the pleasure of having been, once again if briefly, in a place where magic and chaos reigned, and offers silent congratulations to whoever it was that did it. The rules mean nothing, restrictions mean nothing, nothing means anything if there's someone out there more powerful than oneself - and there is someone out there cleverer and more powerful than the Wardens, or at least less concerned with repercussions.]

[It's in this forced state of mind that he paces the halls and the deck, keeping to corners, places with low ceilings, and rooms with clusters of concerned people standing around. He is aggressively cheerful, though he moves too quickly and abruptly to entirely hide his agitation. Still, he doffs an imaginary hat at those who look upon his good cheer with irritation and smiles at absolutely everyone.]