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Herr Klaus Helmut Starr ([personal profile] herrstory) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2018-06-08 11:54 pm

004 | Video (Backdated to 11:05pm Tuesday June 5th)

[ Starr kicks off the video in Chilton's office, sitting at his desk. Chilton's nameplate has been replaced with another one reading: Dr. Herr K. Starr ]

It seems Doctor Chilton has ported out. So until further notice, I will be taking over the Maurtia Falls Psychiatric Hospital for Abnormal Conditions. Staff is to immediately report to me for evaluation and policy updates.

For the time being, we will not be accepting patients unless in the most dire of circumstances -- in which case, I will be able to implement shock therapy. In my humble opinion, such therapy does work best when placed upon ones genitals, but I will leave that up to the patient.

[ He pulls out a notepad, puts on Chilton's reading glasses, and picks up an entirely too fancy pen. ]

Now simply because we will not immediately be taking patients does not mean we cannot get you in the system. So let's start this with the basic question most psychiatrists are sure to ask: what is your deepest, darkest sexual fantasy?
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[personal profile] setmatch 2018-06-14 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
I'm free tonight. Maurita Falls? I know a bar.
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[personal profile] setmatch 2018-06-16 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm a bit of a night owl- I certainly don't mind a late evening. I'll text you the address.
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[personal profile] setmatch 2018-06-18 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's a surprisingly quiet bar in Maurita Falls. More of a lounge type than a dive bar. He keeps to the corner, back to the wall, watching and waiting for Starr to enter.

Idly, he checks his phone, re-reading the warning messages from Chauncy. The man, supposedly, is dangerous.
And so is he.

He orders himself a whiskey, sipping slowly as he waits and watches. ]
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[personal profile] setmatch 2018-06-23 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's hard to miss the stranger who approaches him. That immaculately tailored white suit, a splash of red from the tie like a hidden gash oozing his lifeblood down his chest.

He stands, polite, one hand on the table as the other reaches out and shakes his. Firm. Self-assured. David projects strength, as he does with all things, when he takes this stranger's hand. ]


I tend to go out of my way to avoid unnecessary attention.

[ Which is to say, he turned down anyone who tried to sit with him, returned any drink that might have been offered to him. He isn't here for idle flattery or seductions.

This is simply business. ]


May I buy you a drink, Herr Starr?
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[personal profile] setmatch 2018-06-25 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ A whiskey on the rocks- a man after his own heart. The next a server passes by, he grabs them at the elbow and whispers the order into their ear. Top shelf. The good stuff. It isn't that he has the money- oh, no, he's still on the government stipend that they gave him. But, well. He has always enjoyed the 'kindness' of strangers.

A little manipulation also helped.

When he turns to Starr to see himself fixed with that single eye, he smiles. Calm and cool and collected. Even if he is closed off, he does not present himself as such- no need to chase away potential allies. ]


Gods, you speak of me as if I'm a hitman. [ He chuckles, amused ] I've yet to establish an hourly rate for those paying with cash, credit, or check. But I've come to believe that the most valuable currency available to me in this new and strange world is favors.

[ Perhaps a little more blunt that he'd prefer, but he senses Starr is honest when he says he is not a man who enjoys his time wasted. Good. He may as well unveil what he wants- an in.

This Chilton runs a psychiatric hospital. One that, supposedly, houses or treats the dangerous imports. And Starr runs his security. Works as a temporary leader while Chilton is away.

There are vague plans. Notions. Perhaps a bit of a push on the right people to cause a disaster. Perhaps a shove in the right direction to get some proper legislation rolling. Ends, means. David intends to build something worthwhile. Devil hang the details. ]
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[personal profile] setmatch 2018-07-01 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, but all men are supposed to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. Hence the morality of the Defense. They should receive a fair trial.

[ He pauses at the last comment, however. Brings his own whiskey to his lips. Buying his time to think of an appropriate answer.

There is, of course, the righteous indignation. The outrage of the very question, as if David is prostituting himself- or asking Starr to- for his services. There is the quiet laugh and categorical denial, clarifying what he means. And there is the last-

He smiles. And sets down his glass. ]


I must say, I should have been clearer in my meaning. [ He's all smiles now. Amping up his natural charm. He doesn't rely on his supernatural abilities- oh no, not with this man. ]

It would be immoral of me to demand sex as payment. Merely a meeting with the right people, or a word in the right here. However... [ His fingertips trace the rim off the glass, his eyes do not leave Starr's. ]

What you propose isn't off the table outside of my office hours.
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[personal profile] setmatch 2018-07-04 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Discretion may be the better part of valor, but it still won't save him before an ethics board or the Bar Association. All the same, he does have t in him to keep a relationship a secret. Had he not, for two years? And then, that was even more ethically questionable than sleeping with a client. ]

I have to say I haven't really had the chance to experience either. However I am quite open to new experiences.

[ Even if he usually preferred taking control. Grasping it and pinning his lover down. Tying them, choking them, claiming them as his... ]
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[personal profile] setmatch 2018-07-09 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
I find most of humanity to be as such. Seldom do people risk the unknown until they are forced into it. And then their reaction is to flee, to run back and hide in their little shells. To return to normalcy. Rarely do the tested actually rise to seek greatness, even if they have the opportunity thrust upon them.

[ Its very blunt, the way he speaks. His own experiences tempering his mood. Many of his companions had been afraid. Few had taken up the call to greatness as he had. Niko had only joined him out of fear of his own death. Ximena for her bloodlust, Charlotte for her greed. The others had scattered like ashes to the wind.

And he... He had been Icarus flying towards the sun. Only to have the woman he considered a sister to pay for his hubris. ]
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[personal profile] setmatch 2018-07-16 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's both, isn't it? He'd become so jaded by his career. Had seen so much evil in the world. It had been the catalyst, the reason he had lept at the chance to serve the gods. To become something greater.

Compassion Fatigue. Secondary Traumatic Stress. Whatever you wanted to call it, it had been the catalyst for pursing greatness beyond mortal means. ]


I've been a prosecutor for nearly 15 years. It takes its toll.

[ A sigh, and he sips his drink. ]

Unfortunately, the law is what I'm good at.
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[personal profile] setmatch 2018-07-20 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's a question he finds himself unable to answer, really. For the majority of his life, he has been an atheist. And yet, he had been thrust in front of the gods. Multiple gods.

He knows that they exist, and yet he doesn't believe in them. Doesn't have faith in them. So what does that make him? Deist? ]


I believe that Religion and Ritual have their purposes, but I haven't exactly found myself drawn to faith, no. Then again, stranger things have happened.
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[personal profile] setmatch 2018-07-22 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
The teenage gods? Demigods you mean. Children of, but not true gods.

[ He would know. He is one of them himself.]

... The gods of my world are nothing but a disappointment. Each and every one of them. Self-serving. They leave the world to rot and ruin and then summon their children to clean up their messes.
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[personal profile] setmatch 2018-07-27 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. Those gods. I am familiar with Woden. [ The egotistical prick. ]

... I suppose that if he's run off, he would be the only one knowing what he's doing.

[ It's a joke, if a bad one. Terrible.
But still, he supposes that answers the question of if he was a religious man...]
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[personal profile] setmatch 2018-07-30 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
That, like most gods, I hope he chokes on his own ego.

[ There's some cynicism in his voice, and he drinks the rest of his glass. Gestures to the waiter for a second round for both of them. ]

Personally, I would rather keep my distance from those calling themselves gods. All they bring is suffering and ruin.