Where: Dance-A-Thon Who: Ben @readbentweenthelines

Azra swayed awkwardly from side to side, as Joe had instructed, while the doors were tossed unceremoniously open and a woman came striding in, making chaos everywhere she went. She had not been in town long, and truthfully, she'd never been to an event like this before, but she had been having fun, getting to know people and dancing the night away. Now... She leaned in close to partner. "Is this normal? Are we supposed to keep dancing?" She knew this town was unusual, but this behavior was a little concerning. "Should we...do something to help?"

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"Okay, so I'm going to preface that I have likely once again went a bit too overboard. But, I'm going to need you to bare with me and just go with it, okay?" She asked, extending out her hand for him to take as she held the door to the library open for him. Bri was well aware that Ben was more of a low key guy, while she clearly didn't ever learn the definition of low key, having signed up for the Hideaway's Cupid's Getaway on a whim. But, while they clearly weren't dating long enough, to do any grand romantic gesture with roses and the works, maybe there was a way to find a nice in between. "Ta dah?" She hesitantly offered up as she walked them into the empty library that in deed looked like a library. There was no sign of Valentine's decorations in sight, but as they entered the room, she did place a boom box she had been carrying on the center table. "We have the library to ourselves for an hour and, I figured the one thing you can never do in a library, right, is be too loud, so now we can either grab some books and plop down over in the bean bag chairs to read or play music and be as loud as we'd like? Oh! I also brought this too, in case," She offered up, finishing a bottle of champagne out of her bag and two glasses. "This okay or did I fail at being a girlfriend once again?" She asked, half teasing.

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As time rolled without stopping, Jonah had no choice but to follow along. Despite wanting to confine himself indoors there were moments when he felt walls were closing in on him, spiking unnecessary panic into his already rattled system. Respite, thought little, thankfully wasn't non-existent, moments where he smiled and even laughed without guilt bearing down but it didn’t last though, restarting the cycle anew. Thoughts both aided the heaviness and offered a distraction, and one such thing took up more prominence in his head than anticipated, especially since the Murder Mystery dinner, perhaps this wasn’t a good idea, perhaps it was, either way this conversation went he’d have an answer and that counted for a lot these days. 

Weaving through the campus, Jonah wasn’t, for once, a bundle of nerves. Something about the place that made comfort seep into him, a familiarity in atmosphere if not halls, brought forth an easy peace that settled in nicely as he knocked on Ben’s door. They weren’t strangers but he had checked ahead for availability out of politeness. “Hi,” the greeting followed a smile once the door opened, “Do you have a minute to talk about the environment?” Letting out a laugh with the question, Jonah relaxed a little more, “Oh, wait, waxing poetic about nature is more your style right, Professor?”

Location: Council Headquarters Closed For: The Council & The Hunter ( @cantfightmoonlightlight @moonglowmagic @nicocastillo @readbentweenthelines )

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For the past year, the citizens of Lunar Cove had been terrorized by some faceless adversary that had taunted them, taking the lives of everyone in leadership and leaving the town floundering. On Valentine's day, they made their biggest strike yet, a year after the first attack. For the first time in that year, Bea felt like they might have gotten the upperhand, despite having been kidnapped with a small portion of the population of their town, no one on their side had died. Of the hunters, only one remained, and she was being restrained in a soundproof room on the other side of the building while the Council best decided how to handle the situation. "I think we should probably make a game plan before we get in there. Maybe we make a list of all the things we want answered before we head in, so we know what information to aim for?" There was also the matter of what to do with the captive after the interrogation, but Bea didn't want to think about that just yet. "Do any of you have experience in... interrogation?" she asked uncertainly.

BENJAMIN ANAK BANDI (HENRY GOLDING) IS LOOKING FOR…

Connection: Coalition Advisor

Suggested Name: UTP

Age Range: 35+

Species: Human

Suggested FCs: UTP, but POC is preferred; some suggestions: Pedro Pascal, Idris Elba, Gil Birmingham, Chris Evans, Tawny Cypress, Lucy Liu, Sandra Oh, Sofia Vergara, Rachel Weisz, Keanu Reeves, John Krasinski, Temuera Morrison

Connection Description:

After the murder of the former Coalition Leader on July 4, 2022, the Coalition held an election for leader, with Benjamin Anak Bandi winning the election and becoming the Human Coalition’s new leader. Your character would become Ben’s advisor not soon after.

The two of you have been Coalition members together for well over a decade now. Perhaps you’ve always living in Lunar Cove, or perhaps you arrived shortly before Ben (he’s been in town for over fifteen years) 

You and Ben are either peers of around the same age, or your character is a bit older, but totally down for workshopping how you believe their relationship might have developed. Ben himself is a pretty amicable guy, so, at least on his end, there wouldn’t be any bad blood.

Speaking of Ben’s amicable personality, it might be interesting if your character has a bit more steel. Ben’s no pushover, but he also tries to find solutions that lead to the least amount of bloodshed possible, and he’s heavily concerned with minimizing the loss of life. He’s not fond of dishing out strenuous punishments, and he tends to ere on the side of teaching lessons as opposed to serious reprimanding. Your character could possibly be the one that proposes the hard solutions that Ben doesn’t want to consider.

On a slightly different note, with the increase of hunters and Lunar Cove being the only supernatural safe haven left in the entire world, your character could be increasingly concerned about human/supernatural relations, particularly if they might start turning sour in the town. Also, with this increase in population, there’s also an increase in supernaturals unaffiliated with their specific species groups. How are we feeling about that? Annoyed about the extra paperwork? All of these are things to consider!

Just as Ben was elected to the position of Council Leader, your character was also elected to the role of advisor.

Please be sure to contact the player before applying:

Virginia is available for DMs on @readbentweenthelines!!

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Who: @readbentweenthelines

Where: Ben's House

“Thanks for well….” Dilan gestured to the bed that wasn’t hers that she was sitting up in after spending the night in it. “I don’t usually do this just life has been a lot recently so...” She rambled on and ran a hand through her messy slept on hair to try and calm it down. “Good stress relief.” She added. Leaning her elbows on her knees as she looked over at him. “I would offer to get you a balloon or a thank you card but seems a little formal for this whole transaction.” Dilan joked, before getting out of bed and grabbing her clothes off the floor. “So maybe just a thanks and I’ll see you around?” 

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"Hey Benny Boo," Meena hummed lightly under her breath as she gave the door that was currently wide open to his office a knock. "Surprise," She teased as she place an edible arrangement down on his desk, the joke hopefully not lost on him as she moved to slide into the seat across from him. "And before you give me that look, don't worry. Ralph knows he actually needs to make it up to Jonah himself. This is just an apology on my part. That and a nice way of asking if I can steal you away for the evening? I figured after everything, you and I could use a break? Go do whatever friends are supposed to do whatever that is exactly. So, what do you say? You want to get a drink and be actually off the clock for a couple hours?"

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"Morning Trouble," Bri mumbled softly out as she curled even more into Ben's side from underneath the covers. It only took one peak at the room around them for images of last night to come flooding back to her. Her cheeks flushed a bright red as she moved to hide her face against Ben's shoulder and shield herself from the morning light that was beginning to peak through the curtains. "Or should I say Mademoiselle?" She teased, given how the maid costume he had been wearing was now strewn around the room along with her own clothes and some fallen books they must have knocked off the shelf last night.

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"Oye! Ben 10," Elif called out happily as she spotted the familiar face making their way to the entrance of the hedge maze too. She had only been back in town for a few weeks now and so much had seemingly changed since she was in her early twenties. Shops had come and gone. Her favorite stores had long closed down and most of the faces in the crowd were all new to her, which is why she couldn't help, but be excited to see someone she knew. Even if they hadn't seen each other in years and the last time they spoke they had been pretending to be someone else at Cabaret's Murder Mystery Dinner. "You entering the maze too?"

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"Hey," Meena offered up a soft smile as Ben answered the door. "I heard you did something stupid last night, but I'm really happy to see you. In tact too might I add," She admitted breathlessly. She would have even pulled him in for a hug, an act Meena rarely if ever offered up, but seeing that she'd have to be let inside to do that, she stayed put on his front step with a bottle of wine in hand and a box of blood infused coffee for his vampire girlfriend who was still struggling with the whole feeding thing from what she heard. "May I come in?"

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"Oh, Benny Boo," A low whistle left her lips as she sped to a halt a few feet away from him. "Just the person I was looking for," Meena flashed him a smirk. "I have a message for you from Aaliyah. Is now a good time?"

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Leyla had been running through town. Her feet pounding against the pavement as she tried to get all of the pent up adrenaline from the other day out of her system. Only as she rounded the corner, she slowed down as she saw the familiar face of the Coalition Leader who appeared to be just leaving the gym himself. "Well, if it isn't the Prince of the People," She hummed out, offering him a small smile as she found herself asking him quietly, "How are you hanging in there, by the way? You know with everything?"

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"No comment," Meena let out another annoyed huff, finally being able to get the obnoxious reporter off the phone who wanted an official comment from the 'Mayor' on how exactly the Council could have let this happen ya di dah dah. Tossing her phone away in her bag, she turned to look back up at the other leader. "I'd ask how you're hanging in there, Benny Boo, but I think I can already guess the answer, so do you want to get out of here? Go somewhere where we don't have to be leaders for a minute?"

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"So are we going to talk about what went down or?" Chai asked with a lifted brow, tilting his head back in the arm chair in the C.O.N.S. Headquarters to meet the leader's gaze as Ben wandered in the room. Chai had been midway through sanitizing the small cut on his arm he hadn't even realized he had gotten amongst all of the chaos at the Pendulum and one that would likely heal in a few days all on its own, when he placed down the bottle of antiseptic and lifted his head up curiously. The Coalition clearly having a number of things to talk about now from the new evidence that had come out in terms of their previously closed trial to the fact that a number of their own had been flung around the Pendulum like rag dolls from both Theo and Kyle alike.

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"I'm still in one piece, promise," She whispered out, not pulling away just yet as she gave him another tight squeeze. Burying her face in the nap of his neck for a prolonged moment before her arms finally lowered back down to her sides. She could have told him that he didn't need to keep checking on her like this, but truth be told, it was nice to know that she wasn't going through all this alone. The one plus side to being a vampire that she was quickly learning was that she didn't have to sleep if she didn't want to. The fear of closing her eyes and being right back at those faire grounds having to die over and over again still sent a shiver down her spine. But, even with staying up, she completely escape her own mind. At least not when she was alone. "But, since you did come all this way, any chance you want to come inside? I have takeover and my own collection of books you can count?" She tried to tempt him.