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Characters: Goliath and Ogma
Date/Time: May 1st.
Location: A room in L'Hotel de Jeu Ancien
Rating: R
Warnings: Goliath will curse..a lot.
Summary: JC and Celtic strongmen must join forces.

Goliath had gone to sleep in a local hotel after picking up some new hardware from a local contact. He slept in the clothes he checked-in with. His job stressed being ready at any place you didn't feel a hundred percent secure. Still, he'd managed a pretty peaceful sleep.

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Ogma had fallen asleep with Lilith. He immediately noticed her lack of presence. When he woke up and looked over... Well.

"...okay. This is definitely a new experience," he said, frowning.

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And the sudden new noise has Goliath up in a hurry. He reaches under his pillow for his gun..only to find it missing. "What the fuck is going on here!? Who are you and where's my piece!?"

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Ogma held his hands up placatingly.
"Easy, big guy. Name's Alan Cleary. Ogma of the Celts. I'm a high school English teacher in Kansas City. Father of three with another little girl on the way. I haven't seen any firearms. I certainly haven't taken one. And I have no idea where we are, what's going on, or why we've apparently been chained together."

He glanced around.
"Personally, I'm just hoping my kids and girlfriend are okay."

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"Ogma?" The name registers in Goliath's mind as he calms down somewhat, but remains wary. "You're Lilith's man?"

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"That's me," Ogma said, nodding. "Goliath, I presume? We didn't get much chance to meet in person over the holidays."

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"No kidding. I spent most of the trip either outside or hunkered over with the world's biggest backache," Goliath grumbled. Goliath looks at the chain. "You're a strong guy too, right? Maybe we can do something about this."

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Ogma nodded.
"Looks to be standard-issue," he observed, and wrapped a length around his hand for additional leverage. "OK. Pull on the count of three. One... Two... THREE!" And he yanked as hard as he could.

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Goliath did the same, pulling against the chain as hard as he could. Whatever this sucker was made of, but it was frigging tough.

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The chain groaned, but didn't snap. Finally, Ogma gave up and let go of it.
"Well, it was worth a shot," he said, "Though I have to wonder what it's made from if even we can't get it to break."

He looked around the room.
"Shoot. I don't see a key either. Guess there's more to the puzzle than I initially thought."

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"Fucking shit," Goliath muttered. "I'm really starting to hate these assholes."

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"They do tend to meddle in interesting ways. Interesting in the sense of the Chinese curse, anyway," Ogma sighed.

"But, all right, let's think on this. Gaia wants us working together, which, fine, I can understand that. A shame the current method is so crude, though. I consider your pantheon friends--at least, I've gotten along very well with Esther and Lilith. Supposedly, Gaia's encouraging us to reproduce as well, and I suppose with Lilith already being pregnant, it wouldn't additionally further that goal if I'm with her. Still, it doesn't make sense that you and I would be put together if that was the intent here. Not that it isn't nice to get to know the rest of the Judeo-Christian group."

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Goliath sniffed derisively. "You ask me I don't think they know want they want. I mean first they've got us racing each other, then they force us to play nice, after that they want us to start breeding..I'm not seeing the fucking logic here."

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"I'm not sure what their game is either," Ogma said, shaking his head.

"Well, there has to be a way out of this. I don't think they'd chain us for no reason."

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Goliath mutters and thinks for a bit. "Okay..they want cooperation. Maybe..they want us to do something together?"

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"Seems as likely as anything," Ogma said. "Some kind of mutual benefit, perhaps."

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"That'd be my guess," Goliath agreed.

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"All right. I know we have the formal alliance and all, thanks to Esther's efforts, but is there anything in particular my people can do for yours? Or, at least, that I can do for you?" Ogma asked.

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Goliath shrugs. "Can you make a gun out of thin air so I can put one between Gaia's eyes?"

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Ogma laughed.
"Out of thin air? No. Afraid not. I... might be able to MacGuyver one out of things in the room, but I doubt it'd be very effective or hold together after shooting it," he said.

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Goliath shrugs.
"S'Okay. The thought's appreciated."

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"I'm afraid I'm just a fairly regular guy. I teach high school English, coach sports, I've got three kids--soon to be four--and a dog. Live in the Midwest, pay my taxes... Just doing the best I can to make an honest living," Ogma said with a shrug of his own.

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"Heh, you're practically my polar opposite," Goliath said, amused. "I'm a Hell's Angel weekend warrior who travels the world blowing shit up."

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"Maybe that's why they paired us up. Two big strong guys, very different, but, plenty in common too," Ogma suggested.

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"Sounds fucking poetic," Goliath said, still pretty annoyed about the whole thing.

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"Well, I do teach poetry sometimes," Ogma joked.

"So, I'm curious, do the explosions serve a particular purpose?"

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"I flunked it myself," Goliath admitted.

"As fun as it can be, I rarely blow stuff up for the sake of blowing it up. Usually whatever purpose my current employer pays me to work towards. Still, I keep things confined to people who know the kind of shit they're getting into. Pay's good, I get to travel, and work out my aggression issues with excessive force."

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"Aha. A shame we don't have anything in here that would allow us to put your demolitions expertise to work on getting us out of here," Ogma mused.

"And.. it's actually rather difficult to flunk poetry, depending on how it's being taught. And, no, it's not all boring. Epics like the Iliad or Beowulf are filled with violence, sex and gore. Even a poem I read for Lilith once, "Goblin Market," has themes of rape, kidnapping, incest, lesbianism and murder. And Shakespeare loved a dirty joke as much as anyone."