Sheriff's manor - Culture Tour After-Party

[L .]

Aurelia likes the wager even less now. Knowing she can't exactly say no, she mumbles an agreement, staring longingly at the door.

"Architect, if you're at all unsure, remember, it's not Dominate if it's a Low Clan."

She actually perks up a little at Aldrich's enthusiasm. Oh? Perhaps he was hiding more in that stuffy guise than sobriety and a life of lack. She just hadn't come across many Ventrue with leisure lives... at all. Or an ability to drink well.

[Madam Zaragoza]

“Jean-Jacques, come here and lie with me darling.”

[Manacledairman]

"oh elder. Now now. There's no sport in that." He chuckles and pours himself another drink before necking it, slamming the cup down with vigor

"I, Elder Aldrich Beaufort, Paragon of Clan Ventrue, Architect of the Camarilla wish for another drink!"

[Jean-Jacques]

[alanwrotethis]

Dukes scrunches his face, sizing up Aldrich, suddenly concerned.

"Hmmm.... maybe I can be kind...." he says, "one additional question versus an acceptable book?"

[Madam Zaragoza]

“Yes indeed, Durham failed me once again! Please another cup of tea.” She will kiss Jean-Jaques. “Still my hero.”

[L .]

"Yes there is," Aurelia mutters unhappily at Aldrich. "I win that way."

She sits forward a little eagerly at the way he slams down his drink. "I say. You've done this before!" She looks astonished, almost annoyed. "I worried for nothing? Sheriff, prepare yourself."

"And no, you set the wager. Keep to it."

[Bitterglass]

"Oh Elder Price, such delicious dare." He serves Hermina and Aurelia tea with a grin from the pot. "Let me consider a moment."

He pauses teapot in one hand and wanders over to collect the book with another. "I feel I should apologise in advance Dukes, and to those both fans of literature and of good taste."

He tears the cover from the book, rolls the pages up into a tight sheaf and begins to twist it, slowly applying a little of the tea, working it into crudely into shape with his hands.

"I admit I am not much of an artist. So to Envoy Audley, as the representative of good artwork, I must offer my most sincere apologies at the crudity of my work."

The book begins to resemble a crude and bloody member. "I am also not finished, as I do not wish to upstage the drinking contest." He continues to work the piece, his hand movements getting more and more suggestive. "I shall continue working this until they finish and then the show shall really begin."

[Andross Blint]

"You would seem quite the poor host to back down your bets after being the one to make the challenge Dukes, would be very disgraceful poor showmanship against your clan...."

[Jean-Jacques]

Jean-Jacques rises, carefully to avoid the risk of falling and retrieves a cup of tea by grabbing the pot from a distracted Durham for Elder Zaragoza,

“Elder Hermina, might ee presont ze excellont te of ze poppee I ‘ope eet ees to your tast.”

He then takes his seat next to Hermina