(<a class="username" data-user-id="5865" data-username="@Josey" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/5865/">@Josey</a>)(<a class="username" data-user-id="6169" data-username="@Purplefairydust" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/6169/">@Purplefairydust</a>)<br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">"The Comedian"<br/>
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The fat man tried to keep a calm exterior, but his insides were in knots.  There was so much riding on the outcome and there was nothing that he could do.  He had to stay on the sidelines.  He couldn't fight the Spook along side The Oberon.  He had to wait at the top of this holy tree, The Sequoia.  It was passible that Carla, Cassie, Josey and himself would die here.  He might never see his daughter that was still inside his immortal beloved's womb.  Thalia.  His mind went back to the night he met her and took the stage at Dion's....<br/>
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"Hey, Earthlings," said Toby, "and Neit, while we're waiting for whatever is going to happen, let me tell you some stories and tall tales, just don't take any of it too seriously...."<br/>
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Toby began telling the others about the first night he ever played Dion's, including his meeting with the Muse of Comedy (<a class="link link--internal" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fblackdahliaroleplaying.com%2Findex.php%3Fthreads%2Ftales-of-dions-dionysuss-lounge-and-restaurant.13886%2F&amp;hash=bc2bf9d7210f3b0cc17480e23297375a" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/index.php?threads/tales-of-dions-dionysuss-lounge-and-restaurant.13886/">https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/...-dions-dionysuss-lounge-and-restaurant.13886/</a> ).  He wasn't sure if they believed him about Thalia being a goddess, but that didn't matter because it was a kind of glue that held all of the stories together.  He told them the story about the extra beat in the rythym of his heart.  Josey was surprised to hear that Schwarzenegger would one day be the Governor of California and Toby had to hope that his knowing that info wouldn't cause a big cluster-fuck in the space-time continuum.  Then he told them about why American blue collar types likely weren't into opera and ballet.  After that, Toby told them the story about his side business, L.A.F.R. and the comic that was probably stampeeded by angry drunken cows.  He ended the tales with him and Thalia taking the elevator up to her apartments on Mount Olympus.<br/>
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He still had their attention, like they expected more.  "That's the story," he said, "The rest is too personal and if it ever got back to her that I'd provided intimate details...."  Toby made a motion across his throat with an index finger and made a sound like, "Chihchkkkk!"</span>