Ravenloft
Sweet Rogue
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(Foreword to this post, the 'oration' my character performs is not my writing. That is indeed an excerpt from the book, Necrophelia Variations by Supervert. I'm letting you know here so that it is clear that I am not trying to plagiarize him here. Look for the book, it's worth reading!)
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(It was ten pm and the stage was his. Jacen stepped out into the purple light, wearing tight black pants, a long sleeve t-shirt, and a black hood over a white mask, effectively cloaking himself in blackness, followed by his two co-actors, to portray the drunken couple depicted in the almost lyrical prose of one of his new favorite books, Necrophelia Variations, by Supervert. He laid down on a table and the couple sat beside him as he began to speak.)
"We were at a party, you and i, in a long forgotten cause for joy. There was ruckus drinking, the party pushed on into the darkest hours of night. Someone brought out a video camera to record the merry making. Your boyfriend was seated at a table with some other men, drinking and you were there beside him, with your hand on his thigh. The cameraman came and exhorted you all to be witty for posterity. Jokes were made, funny faces and obscene jestures were directed at the camera."
(Three other men came up on stage, to, mutely, play their roles as drunks and camera man. Nobody but Jacen spoke, from where he lay.)
"I happened to be laying on the table. Your boyfriend picked me up, slipped his face into mine, snapped the cheap rubber band at the base of his head. He and I mugged fore the camera, for a moment, he was death, personified as a drunk man, or was I an inebriated reaper of souls? You, my darling, leaned over, and performing for the camera, slipped your tongue through my plastic mouth and into his."
(Jacen lifted his hood and pulled his mask off, handing it to the actor portraying the girls drunken boyfriend, then sat up on the edge of the table to watch them before coming around behind him, to switch places.)
"You were tongue kissing the personification of death. I could feel your breath, share your alcoholic saliva. Your friends all cheered. The kiss ended, but then, sweetness, you couldn't pull your tongue back out, through my face. My plastic lips had caught it tight like a Chinese finger trap. You winced, pulled, made a sort of open mouthed gargling cry."
(Jacen took the mask from the other actor and finished the kiss that he had started, holding the girl for a moment before she jetted away, acting out her pain.)
"The men at the table laughed and jeered. Finally, you managed to extract your little muscle of love, but not without cutting it on my sharp edge of my lips. Afterward, the video tape clearly showed sweet blood on your tongue. If you had been sober, you might have found it symbolic. You can kiss somebody else's spouse and get away with it. You can kiss a member of the same sex with near impunity. You can give an incestuous kiss on the sly. You can tongue kiss a dog or exchange rapture's with lab rats, but you can't kiss death without death kissing you back."
(Slowly, all the other men filtered off stage, leaving Jacen alone with the girl, to act out the rest of the scene together.)
"Death is a passionate kisser. I bite your lips to your tongue, leave a little taste of blood in your mouth as a portent of things to come. If I were to kiss you between the legs, you would see a little blood there, too, and think that your period had come early, but it wouldn't be your menses, lover, it would be your ruination, a deaths head with your clitoris in its mouth."
(Holding her by her hips, Jacen slow danced with the woman on stage as she acted as though she were only trying to free herself from his arms, until finally, she ran her hands through her own hair and let him dip her back, guiding her to lay upon the table he had once been.)
"Death is mad about you. Death loves you, do you love me to? I am not needy but I enjoy intimacy, especially with you, darling. Go ahead, slip your face into mine, I like to feel your warm lips in my innert vissage. I like to feel your eye lashes tickling my empty, old sockets. One day, I'll slip my face into yours too and we'll experience another sort of intimacy. I'll be inside you, like a lover, I'll kiss you from the inside, and it will feel like catching a chill. You'll get goose bumps up your thighs and shivers down your spine."
(She laid there, letting him spoon up beside her, accepting his mask as he offered it to her.)
"I'll whisk you away to my wormy bed and we'll lay in each others arms, or at least so long as you have arms. Only, then, when you are hideous dust, I will remain true. I am death and when I love, it is forever, and why shouldn't you love me back? I know that sometimes, you fantasize about me. You lay in bed and wonder when I will come to you and what I will look like, when I do. Am I a knight in shining armor? A fiery dog of hell? Do I look like a vampire, a skeleton, or a ghost?"
(He slipped away, leaving her with the mask on, to slowly rise from the table as he beckoned her to come to him from across the stage.)
"You imagine me taking you into my arms, embracing you, comforting you. 'There, there.' I say, kissing your tears away. 'I'll make those awful things go away. Life won't be a burden to you anymore, I promise.' Pull back the curtain to reveal a wonderful new world. A party, a riot, a ball, it's the costumed affair, mardi gras, Halloween festival, day of the dead. It's enormous fun to prance around in the arm of inevitable doom. Life is short, seize the day, go ahead, darling, slip me on. Pretend you're me, see the world through my sockets."
(He continued to reel her in with just his hands as she slowly approached him, offering him back his mask. He did not take it back just yet, instead, he pulled back a curtain to reveal a white screen on which he had a short clip of tightly edited clips from every kind of party he mentioned in his oration. He turned her to face the audience, one hand caressing her stomach, the other placing the mask to her face one last time.)
"Laugh, live, love while you can. Eat, drink, and make merry. What do you think I do? I am death and I make merry too. I dance with skeletons and make goblets out of skulls. To drink from the cranium, you should know, it is very fine.when your brains are gone, what nobler substitute could there be than wine?"
(He swayed her in his arms, donning his mask once more as a stage hand brought him a goblet of wine, made to look just like a skull. He took a drink, letting the red liquid flow down through the mouth slit, over his chin and down his neck, to wet his shirt. Then he offered it to his actress, and she drank much in the same manner before slowly melting to the stage floor and laying still with her wide eyes starring out upon the audience. Jacen took her up into his arms, turned to them, as the goblet rolled toward the edge of the stage, having been dropped by his Co actor, and bowed to them before walking off stage and setting her back on her feet, waiting for one tense moment yo see if anyone liked the performance.)
(That was an excerpt from the book, Necrophelia Variations by the author, Supervert.)
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(It was ten pm and the stage was his. Jacen stepped out into the purple light, wearing tight black pants, a long sleeve t-shirt, and a black hood over a white mask, effectively cloaking himself in blackness, followed by his two co-actors, to portray the drunken couple depicted in the almost lyrical prose of one of his new favorite books, Necrophelia Variations, by Supervert. He laid down on a table and the couple sat beside him as he began to speak.)
"We were at a party, you and i, in a long forgotten cause for joy. There was ruckus drinking, the party pushed on into the darkest hours of night. Someone brought out a video camera to record the merry making. Your boyfriend was seated at a table with some other men, drinking and you were there beside him, with your hand on his thigh. The cameraman came and exhorted you all to be witty for posterity. Jokes were made, funny faces and obscene jestures were directed at the camera."
(Three other men came up on stage, to, mutely, play their roles as drunks and camera man. Nobody but Jacen spoke, from where he lay.)
"I happened to be laying on the table. Your boyfriend picked me up, slipped his face into mine, snapped the cheap rubber band at the base of his head. He and I mugged fore the camera, for a moment, he was death, personified as a drunk man, or was I an inebriated reaper of souls? You, my darling, leaned over, and performing for the camera, slipped your tongue through my plastic mouth and into his."
(Jacen lifted his hood and pulled his mask off, handing it to the actor portraying the girls drunken boyfriend, then sat up on the edge of the table to watch them before coming around behind him, to switch places.)
"You were tongue kissing the personification of death. I could feel your breath, share your alcoholic saliva. Your friends all cheered. The kiss ended, but then, sweetness, you couldn't pull your tongue back out, through my face. My plastic lips had caught it tight like a Chinese finger trap. You winced, pulled, made a sort of open mouthed gargling cry."
(Jacen took the mask from the other actor and finished the kiss that he had started, holding the girl for a moment before she jetted away, acting out her pain.)
"The men at the table laughed and jeered. Finally, you managed to extract your little muscle of love, but not without cutting it on my sharp edge of my lips. Afterward, the video tape clearly showed sweet blood on your tongue. If you had been sober, you might have found it symbolic. You can kiss somebody else's spouse and get away with it. You can kiss a member of the same sex with near impunity. You can give an incestuous kiss on the sly. You can tongue kiss a dog or exchange rapture's with lab rats, but you can't kiss death without death kissing you back."
(Slowly, all the other men filtered off stage, leaving Jacen alone with the girl, to act out the rest of the scene together.)
"Death is a passionate kisser. I bite your lips to your tongue, leave a little taste of blood in your mouth as a portent of things to come. If I were to kiss you between the legs, you would see a little blood there, too, and think that your period had come early, but it wouldn't be your menses, lover, it would be your ruination, a deaths head with your clitoris in its mouth."
(Holding her by her hips, Jacen slow danced with the woman on stage as she acted as though she were only trying to free herself from his arms, until finally, she ran her hands through her own hair and let him dip her back, guiding her to lay upon the table he had once been.)
"Death is mad about you. Death loves you, do you love me to? I am not needy but I enjoy intimacy, especially with you, darling. Go ahead, slip your face into mine, I like to feel your warm lips in my innert vissage. I like to feel your eye lashes tickling my empty, old sockets. One day, I'll slip my face into yours too and we'll experience another sort of intimacy. I'll be inside you, like a lover, I'll kiss you from the inside, and it will feel like catching a chill. You'll get goose bumps up your thighs and shivers down your spine."
(She laid there, letting him spoon up beside her, accepting his mask as he offered it to her.)
"I'll whisk you away to my wormy bed and we'll lay in each others arms, or at least so long as you have arms. Only, then, when you are hideous dust, I will remain true. I am death and when I love, it is forever, and why shouldn't you love me back? I know that sometimes, you fantasize about me. You lay in bed and wonder when I will come to you and what I will look like, when I do. Am I a knight in shining armor? A fiery dog of hell? Do I look like a vampire, a skeleton, or a ghost?"
(He slipped away, leaving her with the mask on, to slowly rise from the table as he beckoned her to come to him from across the stage.)
"You imagine me taking you into my arms, embracing you, comforting you. 'There, there.' I say, kissing your tears away. 'I'll make those awful things go away. Life won't be a burden to you anymore, I promise.' Pull back the curtain to reveal a wonderful new world. A party, a riot, a ball, it's the costumed affair, mardi gras, Halloween festival, day of the dead. It's enormous fun to prance around in the arm of inevitable doom. Life is short, seize the day, go ahead, darling, slip me on. Pretend you're me, see the world through my sockets."
(He continued to reel her in with just his hands as she slowly approached him, offering him back his mask. He did not take it back just yet, instead, he pulled back a curtain to reveal a white screen on which he had a short clip of tightly edited clips from every kind of party he mentioned in his oration. He turned her to face the audience, one hand caressing her stomach, the other placing the mask to her face one last time.)
"Laugh, live, love while you can. Eat, drink, and make merry. What do you think I do? I am death and I make merry too. I dance with skeletons and make goblets out of skulls. To drink from the cranium, you should know, it is very fine.when your brains are gone, what nobler substitute could there be than wine?"
(He swayed her in his arms, donning his mask once more as a stage hand brought him a goblet of wine, made to look just like a skull. He took a drink, letting the red liquid flow down through the mouth slit, over his chin and down his neck, to wet his shirt. Then he offered it to his actress, and she drank much in the same manner before slowly melting to the stage floor and laying still with her wide eyes starring out upon the audience. Jacen took her up into his arms, turned to them, as the goblet rolled toward the edge of the stage, having been dropped by his Co actor, and bowed to them before walking off stage and setting her back on her feet, waiting for one tense moment yo see if anyone liked the performance.)
(That was an excerpt from the book, Necrophelia Variations by the author, Supervert.)
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