Apr 30, 2024 5:36 pm
OOC:
Could be! Chandler stepped back from the church in the late 70s but was around for a few years before he diedP: What Lies Before
load previous
Apr 30, 2024 9:02 pm
Its still an ungodly early hour in Hollywoodland, as Amanda strides through the trailers with clipboard and David's preferred morning brew in hand. She approaches the one with his name taped up beside the short steps and the door. With a step up, she raps on the trailer door with the back of her hand and knuckles. "Mr. Otera. Morning. Time for your hair and makeup, Sir."
OOC:
I am going to guess this is early on and before Verity goes missing?Last edited April 30, 2024 9:03 pm
May 1, 2024 2:34 am
David rolls off the built in sofa bench, pissed that the day is starting already. He gets to his feet, bumping the table nearby and nocking several bottles and half empty glasses to the floor.
"God Damn It! This better be good!"
David stomps all the way to the front door and opens it loudly and aggressively. The face that emerges from the trailer is tired and unshaven with a heavy smell of mint mouthwash reeking from every pore.
"What! Oh... its you..."
He glares at Amanda as if she's the source of his many life problems.
"I assume you have my coffee?"
"God Damn It! This better be good!"
David stomps all the way to the front door and opens it loudly and aggressively. The face that emerges from the trailer is tired and unshaven with a heavy smell of mint mouthwash reeking from every pore.
"What! Oh... its you..."
He glares at Amanda as if she's the source of his many life problems.
"I assume you have my coffee?"
May 1, 2024 9:26 am
"Yes Sir." Amanda holds out the lidded cup she's brought to him. "Its as you've requested Mr. Otera." She adds, fidgeting slightly and holding the clipboard down against her thigh.
May 1, 2024 8:00 pm
"Good! Now be a good little assistant and go tell them that I’ll be out in 10 minutes"
He’ll grab the drink and slam the door on Amanda. Back inside, he’ll grab his bottle of happy pills and pop a couple down his throat.
He shaves and dresses fairly quickly, taking the time straighten his own hair before letting the pros do it.
Looking in the mirror, he takes a deep breath to center himself.
"Ok David, let’s go out there and be the star you were born to be"
He walks out of the trailer, looking like the David Ortega everyone knows and loves.
He’ll grab the drink and slam the door on Amanda. Back inside, he’ll grab his bottle of happy pills and pop a couple down his throat.
He shaves and dresses fairly quickly, taking the time straighten his own hair before letting the pros do it.
Looking in the mirror, he takes a deep breath to center himself.
"Ok David, let’s go out there and be the star you were born to be"
He walks out of the trailer, looking like the David Ortega everyone knows and loves.
May 1, 2024 9:26 pm
Amanda blinks as the door is slammed in her face and takes a step back and off the steps. "Will do. Yes Sir." She calls back to David through the walls of the trailer.
'Prick' She mutters under her breath and walks a short distance away. Amanda touches the button on her headset and informs hair and makeup Mister Otera will be arriving in ten minutes.
'Prick' She mutters under her breath and walks a short distance away. Amanda touches the button on her headset and informs hair and makeup Mister Otera will be arriving in ten minutes.
May 3, 2024 1:38 pm
Spencer And Blake
Blake was in a storm of bad media press. A family came together to begin protesting the church, claiming the church brainwashed a man named James Hanson into giving the church all of his possessions. Baseless accusations as James joyfully gave his possessions to the church prior to his death, but perception can be a nasty tool and a few media outlets have already picked up the thread. Brian sent Spencer to meet with Blake to determine the best path forward to fix the situation.
Blake was in a storm of bad media press. A family came together to begin protesting the church, claiming the church brainwashed a man named James Hanson into giving the church all of his possessions. Baseless accusations as James joyfully gave his possessions to the church prior to his death, but perception can be a nasty tool and a few media outlets have already picked up the thread. Brian sent Spencer to meet with Blake to determine the best path forward to fix the situation.
May 3, 2024 3:36 pm
OOC:
I just want to finish up tying Spencer and Blake together and then we'll get started with the main story!
May 3, 2024 7:14 pm
Spencer approached Blake in the same manner he tried to approach everyone with, coming up on him unawares. He liked the startled expressions that flashed across their faces as they tried to remember if they had been doing anything unseemly.
Brian tells me we have an issue to deal with. Something about a family and bad press? he asked, fishing out a cigarette from inside his rumpled suit jacket.
Hop in the car and you can give me the details on the way. Spencer didn’t bother explaining where they were going, assuming it would be self evident he wanted to case the family house.
Brian tells me we have an issue to deal with. Something about a family and bad press? he asked, fishing out a cigarette from inside his rumpled suit jacket.
Hop in the car and you can give me the details on the way. Spencer didn’t bother explaining where they were going, assuming it would be self evident he wanted to case the family house.
May 7, 2024 9:38 pm
Seems to me that the way forward is get the family to publicly recant. Or, worse case scenario we scare ‘em into silence and the story disappears on its own. If you have anything to add, I’m listening. Otherwise Ill wait for one of them to get home from work and make them see reason.
May 9, 2024 1:58 pm
"I believe a talk with the family is in order. We will go from there on how we should proceed. Unless you want to handle it and I'll work on something else."
May 10, 2024 1:22 am
Right, he said, slamming the parking brake up as they stopped in front of the house. You don’t need to come in if you don’t want. You’ve got your public face to think about, and things might turn…hostile.
Not giving any time for Blake to think, Spencer hopped out of the car and moved in long, even strides to the house, looking for a simple way to get inside.
Not giving any time for Blake to think, Spencer hopped out of the car and moved in long, even strides to the house, looking for a simple way to get inside.
May 10, 2024 4:00 pm
The house is a simple stucco with dark shutters and a small fenced in yard, as Spencer approaches, he can hear the sound of water running in the house. It is around dinner, so perhaps they are cooking?
May 10, 2024 8:35 pm
Guess I won’t be there to surprise them when they get home he thought to himself. He rang the doorbell, hoping it would be the father who answered.
May 10, 2024 11:25 pm
A woman answers the door. She has her hair covered in a bright blue handkerchief. Curls spill out the bottom of the kerchief. She stands inside the screen door wiping her hands with a towel as she surveys Spencer in his rumpled suit. Can I help you?
May 10, 2024 11:38 pm
Spencer sighed to himself. He had really been hoping it was the husband who answered. Call him old fashioned, but it was somehow a little easier on his conscience to sucker punch a man in the gut.
Instead of a punch to the gut he shifted his bulk into the door frame, making it impossible for the woman to shut the door on him.
Well ma’am, I sure hope so. You see, you’ve been badmouthing a lot of people lately, he said, calmly pulling out a cigarette and lighting it, blowing the smoke past her face into the front room. If I can offer you a little lesson, people don’t tend to like it when you bad mouth them. Now, he continued, that lesson was free, but if I have to come back here I’m gonna charge my full fee. And trust me, that’s a bill you don’t want to pay, got me? So enough with the bad mouthing and accusations. Do we understand one another?
Instead of a punch to the gut he shifted his bulk into the door frame, making it impossible for the woman to shut the door on him.
Well ma’am, I sure hope so. You see, you’ve been badmouthing a lot of people lately, he said, calmly pulling out a cigarette and lighting it, blowing the smoke past her face into the front room. If I can offer you a little lesson, people don’t tend to like it when you bad mouth them. Now, he continued, that lesson was free, but if I have to come back here I’m gonna charge my full fee. And trust me, that’s a bill you don’t want to pay, got me? So enough with the bad mouthing and accusations. Do we understand one another?
May 13, 2024 10:16 am
The woman blinks in shock and disbelief. It takes her a few moments before she starts to stutter, You… you’re from that church! And you think you can just… intimidate me? as she speaks a large man comes into view from the back hallway. He looks from the woman to Spencer, then back. He calmly asks, Everything alright, Jess?. Jess looks at Spencer with cold eyes as she responds. No Hank… Just some asshole who’s passing by...
load next