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    Training Night

    Willa Burrell
    Willa Burrell


    Gender : Female Location : Shreveport
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    Post by Willa Burrell Sun Oct 27, 2013 11:54 am

    Willa brought Brianna over to Fangtasia to practice mixing drinks and to learn how to deal with difficult customers. The bar was coming along but Willa and Tara still had a way to go before the bar was ready for business.

    "OK let's start with something simple. How about if you make me a......margarita?"

    Willa didn't know if Brianna had ever actually worked at a bar although, with her sweet nature and adherence to the rules, she rather doubted it. This was one of the reasons that Willa wanted to bring her into the bar before they opened. From the stories that she had heard about Fangtasia from her friends, it could be a rough place and the sweet little vampire would have to prepare herself for anything. Willa had to face the fact that while Bill's guards were highly trained, they might not stand much of a chance against an entire building full of hungry, angry vampires. The jailers at her father's camp sure didn't once all of the vampires were set free.

    Brianna Jackson
    Brianna Jackson


    Gender : Female Location : Bon Temps
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    Post by Brianna Jackson Sun Oct 27, 2013 12:06 pm

    ".....Margarita?" Brianna questioned Willa.

    She stood behind the bar in Fangtasia as she instantly looked hesitantly at the shelves of liquids and tried to remember what ingredients were needed as she turned to Willa worriedly and began looking for some sort of help, but realized that she would have to do this on her own.

    "Margarita....Margarita..I can do that...I think" she mumbled.

    She could remember that it was a drink her father used to indulge in as well as beer, but beer was easy. All you had to do was open the bottle or use the pump. After a few moments she began pulling out several bottles trying to decide which ones it was; settling on Tequila.

    Finding a glass and finding the salt shaker as well as cocktail shaker as she added some ice as well as the liquid to the shaker, tightening the cap as she quickly shook at it at vampire speed. Placing the shaker on the bar as she dipped the rim of the glass into some salt as it clung to the edge and poured the liquid from the cocktail shaker trying to miss the salt, quickly turning and cutting a wedge of lime as slid it on top of the salt.

    Maybe it was time that she watched that movie 'Cocktail' with Tom Cruise, might be handy.

    "There we go" she offered to Willa waiting for her response.
    Willa Burrell
    Willa Burrell


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    Post by Willa Burrell Sun Oct 27, 2013 12:23 pm

    Willa smiled at Brianna and nodded enthusiastically. Brianna had been studying how to make drinks and it was paying off. Now she would give her a true test.

    "OK how about a..........Mojito."

    Willa was trying to think of more complicated drinks that their patrons would most likely order. Nothing as complicated as a Rosewater Ricky but, difficult enough that most bartenders hate to make them. She wished that Tara were here right now since she had worked at Fangtasia long enough to know what the most common drinks were, other than beer and shots.
    Brianna Jackson
    Brianna Jackson


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    Post by Brianna Jackson Sun Oct 27, 2013 12:30 pm

    "...Mojito...alright" she smirked a little uneasy.

    She tried to remember what the book had said, she had spent three nights trying to memorize the entire book, she hoped it would help. She returned back to the chopping board as she slide up some limes and searched out a sturdy highball glass from the bottom shelf. She placed the lime slices, a sprig of mint and some sugar into the glass and used pestle to bruise the mint and release the lime juice.

    Maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all, she instantly began looking for the rum, something that she knew very well. Pouring some rum into the glass as she turned back to the bar and added a dash of soda water and another sprig of mint for a garnish.

    "...One Mojito" she smirked proudly at her work.
    Willa Burrell
    Willa Burrell


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    Post by Willa Burrell Sun Oct 27, 2013 12:52 pm

    Willa beamed as Brianna expertly mixed her a mojito and placed it on the bar next to the margarita. Wila ran Brianna through a few, more common drinks, such as the Cuba Libre, a dacchari, and an amaretto sour.

    "OK, tell me how will you handle a customer that runs up a high tab and then refuses to pay. Remember, we have to be threatening and formidable without actually threatening anyone. We don't want to give anyone a reason to shut us down or to give vampires even more bad publicity."

    She looked over her checklist of things that needed to be done. The most difficult would be finding pre-screened donors that would be on hand for the vampire employees and VIPs to be able to feed discreetly, completely out of the eyes of the public.
    Brianna Jackson
    Brianna Jackson


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    Post by Brianna Jackson Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:07 pm

    Brianna froze, her mind went blank as it did when she was under pressure. She hadn't been like this since her chemistry test in high school. Without being to threatening or else they would shut the place down.

    "We ask them nicely?" she whispered.

    But then she realized that would probably not work either, but what else could she do?

    "We glamour them?" she questioned, not sure what the answer was.
    Willa Burrell
    Willa Burrell


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    Post by Willa Burrell Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:21 pm

    Willa smiled slightly, "Yes, that could work unless they have some of those anti-glamour contacts that have become so popular lately. What if they have those in and you can't glamour them? What then?"

    Willa didn't want to admit that the dungeon was still downstairs and was ready for new guests. If needed, they could have a human employee escort them downstairs to be terrified out of the money and then glamoured before leaving. She made a mental note to show Brianna later.
    Brianna Jackson
    Brianna Jackson


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    Post by Brianna Jackson Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:25 pm

    "We follow them when they leave the bar and threaten them? If no one sees us doing it, they can't prove it? Or if they don't know who is a vampire we could pretend to be humans?" she stuttered.

    She really didn't know what else Willa wanted her to say, Brianna had never killed anybody before and she hoped that she never would, but one couldn't hurt could it? If she covered it up well no one would know that they were killed by a vampire.

    She twiddled her thumbs as she didn't know what else to say.
    Willa Burrell
    Willa Burrell


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    Post by Willa Burrell Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:59 pm

    Willa smiled slightly as she looked up from her paperwork, "Well, following them could help until they went to a more populated area. You also never know who could be carrying some type of recording device. It happens more than you might think, believe me."

    Rising from her seat, she waved her hand as a signal for Brianna to follow her. She walked to the back of the bar and opened the heavy door that led to the basement. "This is what we do but make sure that a human brings them down here. We will deal with them after the bar closes."

    Leading Brianna downstairs, she waited at the bottom of the steps as she looked at the large wheel in the middle of the room. The chains from past detainees were still attached to the large bars that ran from the top of the wheel into the bottom.
    Brianna Jackson
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    Post by Brianna Jackson Sun Oct 27, 2013 2:11 pm

    "...Right, I will remember that" she took a mental note.

    She frowned in curiosity as she followed Willa through a large door, assaulted with a strange smell that made her recoil as she tried to figure out where she was going. Descending the stairs as she climbed down the large concrete steps as was in some sort of torture room filled with chains and some wheeled machine.

    "...What are we in? Medieval times of torture or something?" she turned to Brianna curiously.
    Willa Burrell
    Willa Burrell


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    Post by Willa Burrell Sun Oct 27, 2013 2:31 pm

    Willa could see the fear and horror in Brianna's eyes as she looked at the machine in the room. It did indeed look quite horrible. Willa had asked Tara what the machine had been used for when she first found it.

    "Eric, my maker, was the sheriff of this area when he was still alive. He used this for people that were selling V and for committing other crimes against vampires."

    That was all that Willa could bring herself to explain. She could smell the death in the room and knew that Brianna could too. As much as she was disgusted by what happened here, she couldn't get rid of this particular item since it had played such a big role in what Eric used to do in life.
    Brianna Jackson
    Brianna Jackson


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    Post by Brianna Jackson Mon Oct 28, 2013 3:46 am

    Selling V? Brianna had heard of people selling V. She remembered her friend Sam was a user of V and in the end she barely recognized him before he ran off and was never seen again. Did he end up down here with the others. She pushed that thought to the back of her mind as she tried to think of anything to distract her.

    "....Can we go back upstairs? This place is kinda freaking me out down here" she whispered turning to Willa.

    She just wanted to get away from this place, she didn't want to be down here any longer than she had to be. She just wanted to get back to training to see what else Willa had planned for her, hoping that she could pass the test.

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