Lemme see if I can help with the espanol, eh?

Basically, Mami Fortuna was screaming "I know what you are! I know what you are!"

Penelope responded with "You don't now anything, little girl(/my daughter/something along those lines)..."

Did I miss anything? There's another sentance there some where, huh? Crap... now I gotta read again... Neeeed coffee..

Okay, the remainder of Penelope's reply was "Did you see with these eyes?"

Like I said... rough translation... HS spanish, you know.

good good.. thanks

Hope you enjoy Smoke's attitude. It isn't long but it gets the point across... I love playing characters with real smart mouths

M.

Okay, so that's not exactly where I thought all of that was going when I started but it works, I think, and I like it!

Alex has slipped the noose, so to speak, but isn't feeling a whole lot better about it... No getting run in for suspicion of murder (yet) but having to 'play' on the horrendous memory of Em's death to slip out... Having serious doubts about what he's done by cluing Joe in on the Zazy's (ol' Joe's liable to become a 'fixture' now because of all of this and will have his happy, mundane hiney hauled into the dark and nasty world of Witchcraft for better or worse)... and thanks to Det Sgt Kelly's 'interogation and questioning skills' poor ol' Alex is just emotionally broken down and in more dire need of sleep than ever.

So sad... and yet soooo much fun!

Am I sick?

Linked the song title in the first post to a You TUbe video of the song for those who care to listen/watch.

I will post all translations for spanish conversations on here.
Eol, good job on the translation that's pretty much the jist of it. One thing:

¿Què has visto con estos ojos? = What have you seen with your eyes?

Anyway, we're moving right along (I loves it), should have some more Penelope and Mami Fortuna in a day or two.

Why wasn't I informed about this development?

Ah well, I'll definitely be lurking at any rate, if it's too late for Janelle to pop up out of the blue (or the black somewhere... this IS a horror-style if I saw that correctly )

Or... a character idea just popped into my mind...

It's interesting where inspirations can show up out of nowhere...

Buuut... I'm getting off track again...

Then again, I'm not sure what else to add now...

Well, later!

Reralae

That's my fault, Rer. I thought I had mentioned/invited you to join us when I originally had the thought of "you know, I'd love to pick up the Sharpeness of Smoke crew and run with that again" but, as I mentioned to you in the PM I sent, I guess I actually didn't.

Forgive a geezer for the memory lapse?

Anyhoo... when I didn't hear from Meri for a while I figured she was just offline for the time being... when I didn't hear from you, I figured you were busy with other games and whatnot (at that point I hadn't realized that my original ping on this one hadn't been written let alone sent) and, so, I tackled Nimu and asked if she might be interested in helping me pick up with Alex and such.

Sooo... we started toying with when/where/how we'd pick up the ball and run with it, Meri showed back up (YAY!) and thankfully revived Smoke and here we are...

Long post shortened, here, we'd love to see Janelle show back up (she was in the original Sharpeness run, after all)... Let's flesh out the relationship and such between her and the drunk guy and Miss Kitty (since I kind of see Stare taking place a short month or three following the events of Sharpeness and am figuring, for the sake of continuity, that the events in Vesper's game haven't occured... at least where the characters appearing in the Sharpeness of Smoke are concerned... basically, we're picking up Sharpeness a couple of months 'in the future'). We can do that fleshing out bit, right here in the Q&A, if you like or via PMs back and forth.

P.S. I kind of plunked this storyline down into the Freeform>Horror forum since, in my mind, Witchcraft is a horror-type RPG at it's core (and becuase I foresee some truly horrifying and nasty things happening along the way)... I suppose it could fit just as well into the "modern" category, though... Not opposed to moving the thread if necessary.

It's fine where it is; I'd say that the direction it's going in is certainly a bit... horrific... in a fun way

Let's see... if it's only a few months... I'd say that's probably enough time for both Mr. Drunk and Smoke to have heard the entirety of the poem behind her weird delusions, but here's a question... would they have 'awoken' Janelle to the dormant power inside of her, or left it as is, so she's still unknowing that they know? Although she has the ability, she's definitely very reluctant to accept that part of her...

It's also kind of assumed, but I guess I'll clarify that Janelle, for apparent (if not logical) reasons, really distrusts/is paranoid of analog clocks...

Thankfully, there's far more digital ones than analog ones, but it's still something to play with

I agree with Rer... it is perfectly fine in the horror section. You keep talking about flaying people for Heaven's sake

And in response to Rer... Smoke would likely not feel like it was -her- job to 'wake' Janelle up to her powers. Alex is her human is her concern, although she'll protect Janelle if necessary. However, Smoke making witty comments to her, perhaps even like she did with Alex at first (little one liners he thought he was going nuts over...) totally in her style. So unless Alex has done something Smoke would just make comments to suggest things to her, but not lay anything out for her. I'd imagine that when Janelle asks for more info or denies something Smoke would just kitty snicker, purr and go back to sleep.

M.

I can't help it if flaying people is a hobby of mine, can I?

As far as Janelle goes; I kind of don't think that Alex would've done anything (at least not on purpose) to tray and awaken anything in the girl... The first time he ever saw her she was glowing like a lighthouse, remember? And, since Alex isn't exactly the most stable kind of guy himself, I doubt that he'd have tried to coax anything out of Janelle that he wasn't sure he could manage if something went wrong. My feeling is that he's kind of taken up the "big brother" kind of role where she might be concerned (likely with some prodding from Smoke, since Alex isn't concerned with making friends or getting close to anyone at this particular point in his life... again, at least on purpose)... He likely feels that he's got to protect her from something... "Li'l girl's runnin' around in the world, shining like some supernatural beacon and not doin' a damn thing to control it... somebody best watch out for her until she gets it together"... that sort of thing.

Nothing concrete or 100% commited to in the above, just initial thoughts and feelings... Always up for haggling.

I just thought I'd check, but that's about what I imagined

One 'nightmarish' post up for Janelle... perhaps giving a bit of an insight as to the strange workings of her mind... or maybe just proof that she's crazy, but hey, isn't everyone?

We're all nuts around here for certain *nod*
But love the nightmare post. Poor kid...

M.

will be ready in the next couple of hours. Workday is finally slowing down and quitting time is just around the corner. Home in the next little bit and dedicated to finishing up after that.

I will be sitting on the edge of my seat just waiting! I hope no one does anything too exciting here, I'll wind up on the floor!

As promised, one hung-over Wicce PI post.

Could've done more, I suppose, but figured that was a decent place to leave things for now.