Topic: The Burning Girl

Malekh

Date: 2007-06-11 00:29 EST
The Burning Girl, after a brief construction phase, is open for business.

Enter. Up the cracked stone steps (chiseled that way, for Kasey thought it was so "New York"). Hold a black iron rail that loops like some amusement park rollercoaster. The sign above is painted in some iridescent medium, meant to suck you in as you pass under.

You might wonder, "Why the Burning Girl?? It's ok. Everyone does.

The first floor is a ballroom gone awry. It is certainly not fit for a black tie event. The walls are painted in bursts of color: purple and blue with white epicenters, streaked by hues of red and orange, which fade in and out, like a dissipating fog. The backdrop is black but curiously mottled by little silver dots. A stage is at the center, lifted three feet off the floor. The curtains are a heavy black velvet. There are two bars at the back, one sporting the common spirits, the other catering to more unusual tastes. They sit right and left of the door, respectively. There are tables scattered throughout, but the center of the room is left bare, save for a black baby-grand. The owner is known, on occasion, to tickle the ivories, but when he does not, club-goers are permitted to do as they like (Kasey has often encouraged the prettier ilk to dance around him whilst playing). Two grand chandeliers light the way, though each bulb is a different color (Kasey did not feel RhyDin would understand the disco ball).

Up a winding metal staircase stage left, and reach the catwalk. Here are the loungers, the wallflowers, the lookouts. Mismatched couches line the walls, relics of a decade of garage sales.

Club operating hours are in sync with the fall and rise of the sun.

Malekh

Date: 2007-06-19 20:58 EST
At the piano, Kasey hummed, but did not press the keys to play. Nevertheless, the club stood silent, its revelers in a zombified stance at the dance floor's circular edge, measuring by pairs of feet a perfect circumference.

The tenders, both right and left, hung over their respective countertops, and stooled patrons circled ring-around, abandoning even overflowing tankards for a look at the Player.

There was no need for an electrician. The spotlight on Kasey was timed automatic.

Only when all eyes aligned with the baby-grand did the Player play.

Stars shining bright above you Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you? Birds singin? in the sycamore trees Dream a little dream of me...

LadySry

Date: 2007-08-14 08:35 EST
...Delicately the dying cigarette in the tall woman's hand was tossed under a boot and ground into the floor as she observed placidly the comings and goings from her lean against the Ladies Room door. The idle countenance a means for assessment, of others finding no assumptions to make, just another Nico or Ginswigger for an introspective night out.

It wasn't the case.

Boredom. Simply that. That and to test the waters of a new town.

Around her the room moved with life and a distinct electricity that plucked at her instincts as if they were strings themselves, and might zing with this peculiar club's current. Her body tensed and relaxed as she stood straight and reached up to touch her throat, a pause in thought to stretch her eyes from this Kasey and to the greater crowd. There was nothing here, she decided, nothing for her to understand, nothing she could gauge for an entry of interest, nothing she hadn't seen in realms and states before. Not her scene.

In her no-fuss stride Sry turned away from everyone, but those that brushed past in the darkness, and flinching at gropes and unwelcome hands as she was eddied in and out of the milling few nearby, pale blue eyes sought the stage again with a faint hope that this her last stop for the night was not in vain. Despite herself and her character she thought to excitement, a thrill. A shake of her head and gently she dug a fist in the pocket above her pelvis and strode head down for the side door...