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Post by Nathan Cloud on Jan 22, 2017 17:50:56 GMT
Nathan's apartment in the middle of London. It has mahogany floors, plush carpets and two floors. There are graceful spiral staircases all over the place, and it reeks of modern tastes and expense.
Large rooms, a dinner room with a huge table, tvs, speakers and most importantly an entire suite of bookcases, lined with DVDs and videos. Tv shows, movies, everything a film junkie could want. Carved into the walls are TV Tropes.
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Post by Flynneus_Knight on Feb 6, 2017 19:38:54 GMT
Herbert waited outside a very expensive building, wondering. Why had Nathan sent him here? Did he want to rob the place? He took out his phone.
"Hey, Nathan, I'm outside."
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Post by Nathan Cloud on Feb 6, 2017 19:49:50 GMT
Nathan, surprisingly, opened the door. He was dressed in a Batman dressing gown with cowl-hood and he was wearing purple slippers.
'I told you, I wanted fresh tomatoes on it with cavier. If I get anything-' Nathan paused, looking at Herbert. He had been caught in the act; Nathan was actually a proto hipster, not a homeless man! He grey hair was neatly groomed, so his hair looked like Jaime Lannister's in season 1 of Game of Thrones (not doubt where he had got the idea from.) Nathan could actually pull off the look! His beard was neatly trimmed and he didn't look like a complete hobo.
'Herbert!'
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Post by Flynneus_Knight on Feb 6, 2017 19:53:28 GMT
"Nathan!" Herbert cried in surprise. "What happened to you? And why are you answering a door to a very rich building? I thought you wanted to rob it!" He proclaimed.
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Post by Nathan Cloud on Feb 6, 2017 19:55:27 GMT
Nathan looked startled. 'Well, it's not what you think, Herbert. I am a hobo. In spirit. It's just, well, I guess you could say I'm like a modern day Batman. Come in,' he gestured wearily. 'I'll tell you everything.'
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Post by Flynneus_Knight on Feb 6, 2017 20:04:48 GMT
Herbert frowned. "How can you be- never mind." He entered through the door and caught his breath... beautiful mahogany walls, tasteful lightning, a decor to kill, huge windows looking out over London. Movies on racks, stairs to other levels.
"Fuck...," he breathed. Herbert was directed to a beautifully comfortable chair and offered a drink out of Nathan's cabinet. A coke, but Herbert could see stacks of the finest whiskey beyond.
"You have some explaining to do," he stated, still amazed and gaping.
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Post by Nathan Cloud on Feb 6, 2017 20:11:29 GMT
'Yeah, I know,' Nathan said, opening a whiskey bottle and pouring out a generous helping. A glimpse at the label revealed it was from 1708!
He sat down, and put his whiskey onto the mahogany side table. His armchair was a big, expensive read leather one. Nathan rubbed his temple.
'Kid, that persona at university is... well, untruthful. The truth is I'm a consultant for big businesses. They need a fixer, they call Nate McCloud, the finest broker and spin-man in all of London. Hell, all of Europe. I'm on a bit of a break at the moment, going through a mid-life crisis, and so I decided to enrol at university. But there's more.' He stood.
'Follow me.'
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Post by Flynneus_Knight on Feb 6, 2017 20:48:54 GMT
Herbert couldn't believe any of this was true. "A broker? You-" he was cut off as Nathan stood up. Herbert rose to follow him; he had so much he needed to tell Nathan but this has thrown him off completely.
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Post by Nathan Cloud on Feb 6, 2017 20:54:26 GMT
Nathan led him to a large painting of himself, much younger and looking handsome and heroic in a suit. Nathan pressed his hand against the painting and it moved up, like a door, revealing a life made of chrome.
'Care to get in?'
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Post by Flynneus_Knight on Feb 6, 2017 20:55:48 GMT
Herbert nodded, entering. "What's going on Nathan? I have so much to tell you!"
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Post by Nathan Cloud on Feb 6, 2017 21:42:32 GMT
'Herbert, you can tell me in a second,' Nathan assured him. He pressed a button and they quickly descended. The lift touched ground and opened to reveal...
A huge cave. Made entirely of shimmering chrome and glass, it shifted across different levels. There were trading rooms, break out areas, rooms that looked to house intelligence and surveillance, and an odd room full of pictures of animals.
'Welcome to my Batcave!' Nathan exclaimed! Herbert was dumbfounded but Nathan led him down a central track to a massive computer. 'Batman did it, I built it,' Nathan said happily.
He pressed a button, and to one side the chrome wall shifted, and revealed two costumes, which were pushed forwards to rest in front of the two men. They were behind glass, and each part was suspended in the place you would wear it.
The costume on the right was silvery, with small parts of whitish body armour and on my shoulder, the logo of Olympus.
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Post by Flynneus_Knight on Feb 6, 2017 21:47:18 GMT
Herbert just gaped. "Nathan, what's going on? Why do you have a batcave and a Olympus armour?"
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Post by Nathan Cloud on Feb 6, 2017 21:52:21 GMT
Nathan turned to Herbert. 'Because once upon a time, I was an Olympian. We both were,' he said quietly, turning to look at the empty suit next to the silver one.
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Post by Flynneus_Knight on Feb 6, 2017 21:59:46 GMT
Herbert looked at it too. "I thought you got your powers in the accident," he turned to the old man.
"You were an Olympian?"
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Post by Nathan Cloud on Feb 6, 2017 22:04:16 GMT
'Yes I was,' Nathan confirmed. 'Captain Olympus touched me on the arm, and raised me up, and I was human no more. I was an Olympian.'
'As for the accident, I had to lie about that it (OOC: cough, admin) the authorities would have locked me away. You don't really leave Olympus after all.'
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