Homeless in Sacramento

[Premsyl]

Chief looks Allucious over, a strange look on his face.

I guess they don't use many contractions where this guy comes from

"Nice to meet you, Al." he nods to him and then to the other two "Trench. Oya."

Trench. Allucious. Oya. No, those don't sound at all like Shadow Names.

He smiles a bit, spearing a piece of meet on the end of his fork and twirling the utensil to wrap it up in savory noodles. "I am Chief." he says, chuckling as if at some little joke "You guys looked like an interesting bunch. You know, like you're Awake to what is happening," he raises the forkful to his mouth, and pauses to add "like me." Then he takes a bite before continuing with his mouth full, "so I decided I would come over and introduce myself."

He looked incredulous when Trench asks if they have anything else besides lo mein "Are you kidding me? Don't do Chinese often, huh? They got all kinds of shit, man. Check it out." he says, grabbing a menu and offering it to Trench.

When Oya mentioned ordering Chief craned his head back and scanned the restaurant for the waitress. Spotting her, he waves madly until he's sure he's gotten her attention. That done, he looks back to Oya and grins "She'll be 'round, I'm sure. Even if it does seem like she's riding a slow boat from China to get here."

He laughs, quite pleased, it seems, with himself and his mastery of the humorous arts.

[Trench]

"I'm happy for anything they have man." Trench said as he got his menu from Chief. "I just don't wanna look at more noodles. I practically have to survive on the stuff. Rather have some variety once in a while. Spice of life before you die sort of thing." He said with a shrug before scanning the long list of possible orders on the list. It was surreal to keep looking through the perspective of Death, but it was one he was growing accustomed to.

"Uh...So..." Quick! Keep the conversation flowing. "What do you guys, um, do?"

[West]

Bueller? Bueller?

[Premsyl]

"What do I do? A little of everything and a lot of nothing. I make my living working for a delivery service. I consider myself to be a member of the Free Council, but you know how that goes."

When Oya declares she's new to town Chief seems to get serious, looking around to see if anyone was paying undue attention to them before saying "Well, the reason I come over here today was because I didn't recognize any of you as having been at the last gathering of the city's finger-wagglers so I wanted to give you the heads up to be careful out there. Sacramento's got an ongoing problem with Banishers running amok - and worse. Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful city, just with a dark side. I'm not gonna go into all the details here, but just watch your ass. People wind up dead." He gestures ominously with his fork to emphasize his point. The fact that he might be spreading fear didn't bother him, to him it was all about community awareness.

He smiles again, poking a few lingering vegetables around on his plate - which is now mostly devoid of noodles "I don't know what y'all do on the day to day, but if you need a place to hang your hat then me and a buddy in the F.C. run a Hostel here in town. Hostel HI." he takes a scrap piece of paper out of his pocket and writes down the address, including his phone number. He only writes one copy, let them fight over it.

[Trench]

"Me? Pretty much living at Sac U. Been playing Hermit there while sometimes doing some study with the Mysterium." Trench said to Oya. He still looked like he was trying to make himself as small and unnoticeable as he sunk into his seat. The overall effect did not seem to work as well as he thought it would.

"yeah, I know about that crazy crap going on. Lost a friend of mine to some of it. Hell, I don't leave campus anymore unless theres Myst business going on...Pretty much the reason I came here was because I was told Al might have something going on. It looks like they were kinda wrong about that." He did pull out his phone to quickly punch in the number written down along with a random note about Hostel Hi. That was done, he just slipped back down with the menu in front of him.

[Premsyl]

Chief frowns solemnly when Trench mentions that he had been friends with one of the ones the Banishers had claimed. He wondered briefly, of all the Mages he had heard of being killed, which one had been the one he had known.

He glances to Allucious when Trench mentioned the reason he had come here. Of all the Mages at the table, Allucious was the one Chief was most unsure about. Of course, he couldn't be sure about anyone.

I wonder what he 'might have had going on.' Could he be hiding something?

He barely keeps from snorting derisively at his own thoughts. Who isn't? Hiding something, that is..

Oya's query regarding who she could call stops Chief up for a moment and he frowns. Good question, girlie.

"Well, I suppose you could call me. I'm running with a group of guys who're trying to put a stop to all this. Besides that, all I can tell you is that the Arrow and the Eye operates out of some fancy place they've dubbed "The Circle of Creation" and the Mysterium runs itself out of a Museum - go figure, right?"

He takes a moment to offer more details as to the locations of these places. "If you go check it out I wouldn't recommend telling them I sent you. Chances are it wouldn't help or hinder you either way, but I'd just as much prefer you didn't mention it, so just do me that favor."