Private Taking a Bight out of Canto

[Annika Starfire]

Location: Canto Bight
Objective: Meet with Lord
Tags: Darth Malum of House Marr

Wearing: this but with a hat

Annika felt sexy tonight, the dress she had picked out was lovely and much more adult than her usual attire. She had been advised to dress this way, firstly to ensure that she fits in amongst the other casino patrons, but also as a sign of respect for the anointed lord that she was to be working with. Their mission was to disrupt them credits going through here. The casino was too useful to the Sith Enclave around Korriban to simply destroy, but millions of credits were passing through here to help fund the Ashlan Remnant.

She sat at the card table having been dealt in. A small stack of credit chips piled up in front of her, she was a few thousand credits up, but that wasn't why she was here. She was testing herself, testing her abilities and also testing her fine control, and her subtlety. She hoped Astrid pentoghast might be impressed with her work so far.

"See your two hundred raise you another two." she said calmly. She could feel the a anxiety in the man in front of her, and he was stroking his emotions to reduce his control over them. Not so much that he would cause a scene or break down, but enough that he might give away all the most obvious tells. He was nervous as he was in deep and perhaps the cards weren't on his side.

Another card was dealt and Annika felt the man's mood change, elation, relief... greed? "See your two, raise you a thousand"

The Zeltron grinned, "Too rich for me, gonna fold here." she smiled back and his annoyance was obvious. "What's wrong with you dude, you don't usually let pretty girls fluster you."

"Aww thanks" Annika said sweetly to the other man with a little blush. "And thank you for the game, I think I'm going to spend your money on some new shoes." she said with a friendly tone to her opponent as she stood. It was only a few thousand credits, any more and she would draw attention to herself, right now she was just a pretty girl on a lucky streak.

She left the table and sauntered off towards the real person she was meant to be interacting with her, Darth Malum of House Marr was meeting her at the bar in approximately three minutes, and she didn't want tobe late.

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[Darth Malum of House Marr]

A raven of all things, flew down, landing with its obsidian grace upon the bar table. A casino, and especially a casino of this reputation, did not lend itself to normality, but to have a bird of all things, fly in from... Bogan knew where. But taking its first tentative steps upon the bar, gazing down to make certain it would not slip, the entire stand covered by dried-out alcohol and what else, cleaned as it might be, as its eyes were quick to quirk in the direction of the Zeltron that had just arrived.

More certain of its surroundings, and seemingly inquisitive of the woman, it took closer, and closer steps, until it was right in front of her, tilting its head, seemingly uncertain of what it was looking at.

"You know, I never understood how establishments like this survive with Zeltrons on the prowl," A voice likely familiar to the young acolyte sounded out from the raven if that was not disconcerting enough, it echoed from near, yet near, there was no one else.

"You would imagine they would place some ban or something of that sort, but seemingly not," The raven continued, moving forward, and gently nipping her arm, the distant echo still present, still near.

Until the cloak and stealth fell, revealing a smirking face, raven locks draping down to crimson red eyes, a noble aquiline face, wearing a suit, looking every part a patron of this establishment, as he raised a glass of whiskey in greeting, some seats away.

"Apologies for the subterfuge, I simply thought this would be more fun for us both," He stilled for a moment, "What do you think of the the raven?" His voice came out from both his form and the dark bird, "I heard you have a certain affinity for them."

He had not thought it would truly work, she was not exactly... orthodox, but if this was something that might interest her.

It was a way to build inroads.

And for the chaotic days ahead, such were sorely needed.

"Oh," He seemed to remember something, "Regarding the Zeltron comments," His smirk perhaps grew wider, as he took a sip of the whiskey, allowing it to burn down his throat, "I have no problem with you using your... natural advantages... but as I have noticed you have been doing... best be careful, most will not be happy at you fleecing their patrons," He hid the smirk behind another sip, seemingly deeply bemused by her antics, "...Well much more than they fleece their patrons."

Annika Starfire

 

[Annika Starfire]

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Location: Canto Bight
Objective: Meet with Lord
Tags: Darth Malum of House Marr
Gear: in bio
Wearing: this but with her hat

The bird flew over and greeted Annika who looked curiously at it, it was quite out of place and there was certainly more too it, which was made plain when it spoke into her mind. Malum, she recognised the voice and gently tipped her head at his greeter, it could have been him she supposed, plenty of force users were able to reshape their bodies. "Some places have pheremone particle counters." she shrugged and winked before scowling as the small bird nipped at her arm.

She turned and looked at Darth Malum of House Marr and raised her glass to him in response. "I am more than simply a zeltron, as you are aware." she grinned "But of course, take only what they might have lost anyway, greed will only arouse suspicion."

She walked over to him, allowing her dress to shimmer as she did before stopping at his table. "The raven was a nice touch, it's pretty." she signalled with her fingers for the bird to follow her if it had its own free will and wasn't just a puppet. "But I usually only let a very select few bite me." she took a seat next to the Sith Lord and ordered herself another drink.

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[Darth Malum of House Marr]

"It would seem an oversight for such a place to not install a set..." His smirk was still hidden behind the glass, as red eyes could not help but subtly trail up and down her form, it truly was an eye-catching dress, if not the slit that exposed all sorts of leg, at the very least the choker which seemed to keep the entire apparel together.

His smirk perhaps only widened as she winked, and if it was possible widened even further at the scowl, as he brought the glass down to the table, and placed a teasing scowl of his own upon his features, "Bad Corax, we do not harm the beautiful young maidens..." He trailed off, finding her amethyst orbs with his rubies, "...Well unless they want to be." Offering his own wink, as he rapped his fingers along the edge of the table's rim, the raven, revealed to be named Corax squawked quietly in indignation.

Only to the chuckles of Malum.

Quirking an eyebrow at the rest of her words, "Oh I am much aware, Ansisa , has mentioned you, to say I am intrigued would be an understatement," In fact, Kara had not mentioned her, all apart from their second meeting, in the aftermath of their duel.

To say that the Chiss was not a fan of the Zeltron would be an understatement.

He nodded in approval, "Very good, it is refreshing to see such caution from an acolyte... though, considering what you said when we were upon Alvaria, I should not need to fear that you are not cautious enough," He brought the remnants of the whiskey to his lips, allowing the amber liquid to burn down his throat, before echoing Annika Starfire and ordering another, all the while Corax, seemingly annoyed at his master, took up the Zeltron's invitation, and perched itself upon her shoulder.

Malum raised an eyebrow at the last of her words, "Oh? And who exactly counts among those select few?~" He leaned forward, his voice quieter, barely more than a whisper.

Yet his breath, husky, and even a little warm.

As he offered a challenge.

 

[Annika Starfire]

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Location: Canto Bight
Objective: Meet with Lord
Tags: Darth Malum of House Marr
Gear: in bio
Wearing: this but with her hat

"It would seem an oversight for such a place to not install a set..."

She laughed, "Perhaps, but there are a million ways to game the system, they have to balance freedom to spend with the losses they might incur. Same as me, people steal my content but if I start locking it away, where is my income?" she shrugged and took a sip of her drink.

The bird pirched on her shoulder and Annika held up a small piece of a cake she had secreted upon herself. They really were calming animals. She let out a little laugh at the mention of Ansisa that blade weilding wench, she could respect her skills, but would rather not have to deal with that personality too often if she could help it. Malum was intrigued by her, she blushed a little, the warmth in her skin caused her pheremones to become more active and she wrinkled her nose a little at her own scent. She would not be dropping names of those who she allowed to bite her, a lady never told, although she was far from a lady it did no good to have him brought to attention of a more senior sith for anything but his own merits.

"Shall we talk about my sex life my lord or shall we work out how many credits we can take out of the hands of the Ashlan's?" she grinned giving a slightly flirtatious raise of her eyebrows and twisting in her seat to face more closely to the man, she was a natural born flirt after all.

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[Darth Malum of House Marr]

Malum tilted his head in consideration for but a second, before the smile overtook his face, "Touche." He offered, raising his empty glass in mock salute of the Zeltron. All the while he watched delicately her actions, his smile perhaps widening ever further as a piece of cake came out of her dress from who knew where.

Corax was all too eager too indulge in the sweet treat, as Malum's tongue was suddenly filled with sugar, which he supposed was one of the benefits of his ravens not being entirely... real.

Thankfully they did not need sustenance beyond his own, such he would not be tasting seeds, bugs, raw meat, or whatever else that native ravens fed to survive.

He noted the laugh regarding Ansisa , it seemed that the rather negative feelings between the Zeltron and the Chiss were mutual.

Perhaps he should be proud that his apprentice had made her first foe...

...Though knowing his Kara, no doubt she had already made other enemies.

He smirked as the pink blush tinged purple tinted skin, as he became rather still.

His nostrils picked up a peculiar scent.

One which he knew to be careful of, as his mind was suddenly rather... calm.

He held his breath, allowing the pheromones to dissipate, eyes narrowing imperceptibly at the wrinkling of her nose.

Either an accident or she was a particularly well-suited actress.

And he did so enjoy these games.

"Do not think I cannot do both, Lady Starfire, I am talented in many different arts," He punctuated each of the second latter words with a twinge of heat, exploiting her about-face to him, as he drew closer, she had chosen to raise from his challenge.

Well, he could as well.

"...I am most curious about Zeltrons... care to indulge me?~" His tongue rested upon his bottom lip, smirk still wide, and eyes shimmering in untold promise.

Annika Starfire