From: "Paul" Subject: [GRIT] Just Another Face in the Street - Background Story for Deitsu Date: Friday, 23 March 2001 6:13 PM Background story for DEITSU. [RL-Paul: What another character already? Well this one is a little more GRIT conventional. I think two is my limit ^-^ ] Just Another Face In The Street =============================== Timeline: Around about concurrent with posts in the "Sleepers Unbound" thread. Very early morning. Location: Tokyo docks. Deitsu got up and stretched, wincing slightly, as he worked the stiffness from his body. He thought, again, that he must look for a better place to sleep. Scratching the back of his neck absentmindedly he crept out from his hiding place and began to tour his 'territory'. It was dark, but not too dark for his sight and he felt more secure for the darkness. A steady drizzle fell, matting his fur to his body. Few figures moved in this run-down area of the docks, most of those fellow vagabonds content to let each other be. He sniffed inquisitively as he passed a row of dumpsters, but could smell nothing remotely edible. A unexpected sound - he shrank back into the shadows. Ahead a figure staggered drunkenly into an alley from a large lorry, leaving the cab door open behind him. A short while later sound (and smell) told him what the man had left the cab for, and when there was no sign of the lorry driver returning after several minutes curiosity got the better of him. Ready to flee at the slightest sign of danger Deitsu looked down the alley and saw the man slumped, motionless, on the ground - a puddle of vomit next to him and the reek of cheap booze in the air. Deitsu approached a little closer and saw that he was merely asleep (or unconscious) not dead. Deitsu's stomach growled loudly, reminding him what his priority should be. The unattended lorry cab proved to have little in the way of food, just a piece of left over donna kebab. It is unfortunate that Deitsu's sense of smell was so good as he could tell exactly what meat was used in his recently acquired snack ... still at least it had been cooked. Investigating the lorry further he discovered two very important things. 1. The doors at the back were not locked. 2. The lorry was carrying food. Tomatoes , cheese , cans of sardines, large heavily spiced garlic sausages ... About 20 minutes later, curled in the back of the lorry, his belly was full for the first time in months. Out from the rain and the sea wind with his stomach content, Deitsu relaxed a little and remembered... === A few months ago === Deitsu watches from concealment as the bum who had seen him babbles incoherently to his friends and wonders what a 'bakemono' is. === Half a year ago === Hiding in the container ship he looks back at the mainland with mixed feelings knowing he has finally escaped his pursuers. === Over half a year ago === Flashes of light and angry faces, torches and murderous screams. He flees, jumping walls and clattering over roof-tops, but where ever he goes the mob seems to be waiting. === A year ago === A mother tells a bedtime story to her son, while outside Deitsu listens intently perched high up in a tree. A single tear rolls down his cheek leaving a trail of damp fur behind it as he considers the life he has been denied. === Over two years ago === He is trapped, caged, enclosed in a space barely large enough for him to stand. He has no name, he has only rage as he slams the door repeatedly. He has no thought for damage, no pain from the broken claws and split skin, he knows only one thing. He wants out, OUT, _OUT!_ One of the hinges finally breaks, he is dimly aware that someone has arrived outside the cage and is talking soothingly to him, but nothing can reach him now. The door slams open and ... the wrecked door lands ... [Sweat breaks out over Deitsu's sleeping figure as he fights off his nightmare] The pattern broken, Deitsu segues into a different dream. He is chained to a rock, being burnt with hot irons while cat headed demons question him. "What is your name?", "Who are your parents?", "What sort of freak are you?". He gurgles and moans but the demons continue. "What's the matter, kid? Cat got ya tongue?" === SCENE CHANGE === [RL Note, this is the handy, dandy character introducing splice scene. Just paste this into any convenient thread at an opportune time. Go on, please?] Location: Outside Zuni's Timeline: Whenever Participants: Deitsu, drunk driver, and whoever else. A quiet morning in Nerima, the birds by the canal *Screech!* ... _I said_ A quiet morning in Nerima, *Crunch, thump, thump, thump ...* A quiet *"Eeek!", "Get outta the way", ...* Oh alright then ... A typical morning in Nerima - a large lorry rides up the pavement, trailing bits of an icecream stall and lightly embeds itself in the front of Zuni's. [Drunk driver staggers out of cab, a small cut on his forehead but otherwise unharmed, and runs into Zuni's] Drunk driver: There's a monster in my lorry! Monster, Monster_s_, big ones! [Lorry - *thump*, *THUMP*, *CrAsH!*]