driftfleet | A month for the salon

Who: Biffy and YOU
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Iskaulit at his shop
When: Throughout the month

Broadcast

[Biffy comes on screen with a smile as he nods his head politely. Behind him one can see his lovely looking hair salon...the Maison de la Lune.]

Good evening. Given the fact that we are now in the season of Autumn, I felt that it was time to offer a special at my salon for all who wish to partake.

[He steps aside to wave at the interior behind him. It really is very lovely. Elegant even in the simplicity of it. Biffy had really gone out of his way to make sure that the interior design is very classy indeed.]

For this month, I wish to offer a special on makeovers. This will include a hair styling, as well as a scalp massage and a facial. For those interested in cosmetics, I am pleased to say that I can provide makeup for this as well.

[He turns back to the screen.]

I look forward to your patronage at the Maison de la Lune. Thank you.

Maison de la Lune

[Sure enough Biffy is at his shop a lot more this month. (Please don't mind the evenings he isn't. He's probably down on the planet running with his mate.) And whenever he smells someone approach, he is there to greet them with a smell and an impeccable bow. Here in his shop he isn't a Communications Officer, he isn't an Alpha, he isn't a Lord. Here he is just the humble keeper of this salon who is ready to take care of his customer.

So it is with that bow that he will look up, that twinkle in his pretty blue eyes.]

Good evening. May I offer you some tea and you can tell me how I may serve you this evening?

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[Weird. They have werewolves but no magic? How did werewolves come about then?]

Well, normally I charge for magic lessons, but seeing how you're giving me a nice treatment, I can give you a discount for your first few questions, I suppose.

There are many schools of magic, but for transmutation? Yes to your questions, but it depends on the spell you use. Some shape the material, some change it from one thing into another, some store power within an object to be used at another time.

Edited 2018-11-09 12:04 (UTC)

[He laughs as he takes a warm and damp cloth to start cleaning the scrub off of his face. Once it's all clean he starts to apply a clay mask.]

I will keep that in mind about you charging. You have my gratitude for the discount though.

That is quite fascinating though. So for what you were speaking of would that mean changing it from one thing to another then?

[He relaxes into the mask and smiles.]

Mmhmm. It's my specialization - transmutation. That and conjuration. It's how my ship has actual food and not that protein junk they provide.

One of the first questions I asked when I arrived here was if there was any meat to be had. I wasn't about to live on that vile concoction they seem to want us to eat.

[He frowns and then shakes his head.]

It's good you can keep your ship away from that.

[Oh, right, yeah that would be - that would be really bad for a werewolf. No meat? Yeah, not a good thing.]

How have you been faring on that front? There a lot of hunting and fishing available on these planets?

Of course. There are those that make sure to go hunting each time we find a planet with that available. And my captain is always good about keeping that well stocked for Lyall and myself.

[Finishing with the mask, he snaps open a fan and gently starts to dry the mask with it. Just so the elf won't have to sit there for positively ages for this to be finished.]

Thank goodness for good patrons, huh?

[Means he'll be able to at least do some fishing somewhere. Hunting he might leave to others though and just pay them for the meat. That would certainly lighten the load on his magic consumption day by day. It isn't that it's hard to do so much transmutation, but it does take it out of him.

Taako hums thoughtfully at that and then relaxes into the mask.]

What ship are you on?

The Blameless. I've been there for a number of months now.

[Months, huh...? So still one of the newer additions to the Fleet. Four years and two years seem to be among the longest running of the captives.]

Any tips for a newly kidnapped soul to survive this place?

Make yourself comfortable. And be ready for glitches. There's little to be done about them aside for waiting for them to end.

Mm yeah that "glitches" thing? What are those exactly? I've been hearing rumors but they seem to be all over the place.

It appears the augments we have are not without flaw. At times they have the potential to do things called glitches. At these times odd things can take place when it comes to your body. For example I have found myself trapped in wolf form and unable to change back. A friend of mine once found himself with a fish tail for a time. I have also seen bodies and minds reverted to the time of childhood as well.

[Well, that explains Loki. So these augments could change their body and mind that completely, huh? That's a bit freaky ]

And on the running theme of "this place sucks donkey balls," I'm guessing there's no way to prevent the glitches from happening, right?

Not to my knowledge. There appears to be no way to prepare for them either.

Faaaaantastic.

[Taako sighs and he can feel the mask setting. It's a little disappointing that no one here has figured out the glitches yet, considering how long they've all been here.]

So just to get it all straight: I could just turn into a kid at any moment without rhyme or reason?

[While the mask is setting, he works on collecting what he wants to essentially weave into his hair. Just so he'll have it ready for when the time comes.]

Among other things. As I said, there are a number of possibilities for glitches.

Yeah, I'm hoping I never have to find out about any of them. The last thing I need in my life is even more headaches.

[Just being here is enough of one and he's tired of it constantly.]

Well then I certainly hope you do not have to face one.

[He's quite sure that Taako will have to but right now the elf is a customer. That means he has to be far more agreeable about matters. That is what a proper shop owner should do, after all.]

We probably just jinxed me, you realize.

[Oh well. If it's anything really terrible, he'll just hole himself up somewhere for a week and wait it out.]

But maybe ya boy's luck will hold out and I'll be able to skate glitch-free until I bust my way outta this joint.

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