Rita's First Change

From Gothpoodle

At the Grind with Premonition playing.

Attendees

• Tabitha Thorn
• Richard Dufresne
• Redtusk: A red-skinned, tusked Oni demon security guard (Ogre Gargantuan) (+3 Size)
• Dame Grace: A whipcord thin woman with grey wrinkled skin in a grey military-like outfit with a concealed sword (Wizened Soldier)
• Jones: A craggy female stone giant biker (Ogre Stonebones) (+4 Armor, -1 Defense)
• Barry Hops: A friendly, wrinkled goblin in biker duds (Wizened Brewer)
• Whisp: A dusky-skinned woman made of smoke (Elemental Airtouched) (+3 Speed or Initiative)
• The Demon Lover: A suave Hispanic man in a suit of shadows (Darkling Leechfinger)
• Roan: A beautiful sleek-furred woman with black eyes (Beast Swimmerskin)
• Flutter: A small, playful Chinese woman with butterfly wings and antennae (Beast Windwing)
• Slick: A tall, thin man covered in black chitin clothed with centipedes (Beast Skitterskulk)
• Apollo: An extremely attractive teenage boy dressed in a robe of ivy (Fairest Muse)
• Elrond: A regal old man whose head is sheathed in bright globes of light, dressed in white (Fairest Bright One)
• Jadis: An intense woman wreathed in frost wearing a gown of ice crystals (Elemental Snowskin)
• Leo the Lazy: A huge man with a mane of golden hair and cat eyes wearing an Armani suit (Beast Hunterheart)
• Old Red: An ancient-looking man carved out of redwood in hippy garb (Elemental Woodblood)
• Hypnos: A tall, thin scaly man with viper fangs (Beast Venombite)
• Lamia: A gorgeous woman of shifting visage wearing a gown of quicksilver (Darkling Mirrorskin)

Birthday Party

• Rita Vargas
• Matthew Kwan: 17, Chinese. Boyfriend, debate club member, law school hopeful. Short black hair, brown eyes, skinny.
• Lauren Powell: 17, White. Best friend, basketball player, hoping to go professional, trustworthy. Blond ponytail, blue eyes, athletic.
• Emily Fineberg: 17, White. Friend, debate club member, stern academic. Short brown hair, brown eyes, glasses.
• Andrew Woodard: 17, Black. Friend, debate club member, friendly engineer hopeful. Short black hair, brown eyes, overweight. Courting Emily.
• Karen Liu: 16, Chinese. Friend, basketball player and debate club member, competitive, former girlfriend of Matthew, attracted to Lauren. Long black hair, brown eyes.
• Miguel Villalobos: 18, Hispanic. Friend, attracted to Rita, arrogant medical school hopeful. Short black hair, goatee, tall.

Playlist

Premonition Lyrics

"Starting out with one for our special guests."

1. Feel Good Hit of the Summer

"For this night only, the name of our band will be changed to 'Fucking Dick'. Thank you."

1. I'm Designer (looking at Richard and Lee)

• No One Knows
• The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

"For old flames."

• Go With the Flow

"And here's one Annie wrote for Janine and Valerie."

• Skin on Skin
• Better Living Through Chemistry
• Burn the Witch (looking at Tabitha, who gives him the finger)

"And here's a set for the birthday girl."

• Monsters In The Parasol (looking at Rita)
• Someone's In The Wolf (looking at Rita)
• Everybody Knows That You Are Insane (looking at Rita)

"Now, let's really get this party moving." Matt drags Rita out onto the dance floor.

• Sick, Sick, Sick (Incite Bedlam and First Change)

Important Lyrics

I'm Designer

(To Richard:)

• I'm high class I'm a whore, / Actually both, / Basically I'm a pro, / We've all got our own style / (of baggage), / Why hump it yourself, / You've made me an offer that I can refuse, / (course either way I get screwed) / Counter proposal: / I go home & Jerk off.
• It's truly a lie. I'm counterfeit myself, / It's truly a lie. I'm counterfeit myself,
• You don't own, you don't own, you don't own, / You don't own what none can buy, / You don't own, neither do I.

(To Lee:)

• (dog. down mutt. Nice mutt) / You're insulted, You can't be bought or sold. / Translation: offer too low. / You don't know what you're worth, / (It isn't much.) / My piano is for sale. / How many times must I sell myself before my pieces are gone? / I'm one of a kind, / I'm designer.

Go with the Flow

(To Tabitha and Richard:)

• She said "i'll throw myself away, / They're just photos after all" / I can't make you hang around. / I can't wash you off my skin. / Outside the frame, is what we're leaving out / You won't remember anyway / I can go with the flow

Monsters in the Parasol

(To Rita:)

• The walls are closing in again, oh well / The walls are closing in again, oh well / I seen some things I thought I never saw / Covered in hair

Sick, Sick, Sick

(To Rita:)

• (I'm gonna change, / I don't wanna change),

Tabitha's Magic

• Marriage to Richard and repercussions for betraying him (burned alive)
• Opened gateway to Arcadia
  • The Red Duke: Mounted on a ruddy stallion, dressed in rusted armor and wielding a rusted sword
  • Metal in the club rusts, vines grow over things with white flowers, smell of charnel house, bones and rusted, broken arms
  • Ravens with bloody beaks and claws, hounds with blood-stained muzzles