Nikki,k with Orphen's approval, is setting up amps and mics and running cables all over the place from the stage at Neon Burn. She's finagled a drumkit for the night from somewhere, a serious number with a double bass pedal and shitloads of cymbals. Tonight is when she's holding auditions for new band members. She's thinking of calling the new band Fruit Loots, since that seems to have made an impression, but she's not sure that's METAL enough.
When she's done, she sits at the bar, sipping on vodka and waiting for musicians to show up. She has posted enough flyers.  

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'You got any calls or anything back for the audition?'

Orphen is here even though the club is closed to the public. He let Nikki have the run of the place while some work was being done. Xian is overseeing some painting on the upper level and the parkinglot is being sealed.

Orphen sits on the customer side of the bar, having already left Nikkis bottle in front of her. He reaches across the bar every few minutes to pour himself a beer and keep Nikki company.

Nothing yet, man. Does nobody play a goddamn instrument in this town? The only interest I got was that Sean kid who wanted to play in a ska band, and I kind of laughed in his face." She looks a little sheepish at this.

"Tell you what, I'm waiting one more hour, and then I'm calling it a night. Thanks for the space, though, Orphen. And the vodka, of course." She lifts the bottle in a toast to Orphen.

Seans ears must have been burning, because right after his name was mentioned he walks through the door, bare foot with his shoes tied together hanging around his neck over his clean, yes clean white shirt. He has a black trucker hat on backwards and jeans.

He gives nikki the wink and the gun. "How are the auditions goin mindy?"

'Speak of the Devil...' Orphen Comments as Sean strolls in.

Orphen reaches up to grab Sean a drink too, before remembering he no longer drinks...

"Ha! Nikki, by the way. Auditions are shit, you're the first one to show up. You wanna show me what you can do, just for fun?" She returns his wink and his gun gesture, making a "click" noise as she pulls the imaginary trigger.

"Yea sure, i just gotta find my bass..?  Speaking of losing things, have you seen a can of whipped cream orphen? i left it around the bar somewhere?"

He looks around the bar a little bit, "Fuck it, probably no good anymore anyway."

He walks down the stairs to find his bass.

Whipped cream? Nikki shakes her head at Sean while he goes down the stairs, and waits for him to come back with his instrument. The kid likes ska, but that doesn't mean he's not any good. She'll give him a shot.  

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For some reason Orphen can only picture Sean filling his mouth with whipped cream over and over, as much as he acts like hes been huffing aerosol half his life...

'Ive only ever heard him play when we were pretty damn wasted... So i wont vouch for anything.'

Orphen tells Nikki.

Sean comes back up the stairs with his bass putting his guitar strap made of duct tape on it, with a kitkat in his mouth, He walks over towards nikki and plugs his bass in to the bass amp and asks orphen,
"Where you gonna eat this?" as its still hanging from his mouth.

He turns to nikki, "You play an instrument or you just sing?"

"Well, I mainly do vocals, but I can play a guitar. Or, I mean, I could, if there was one around here." She smiles, and looks around. Who knows, maybe there's a spare guitar left for bands if theirs breaks mid-show.

((2008-08-04 12:02:50 Nikki rolls 4 dice to Looking around 4,2,8,4 (1 success)))

It's beat up, the paint on it is all scratched up and kinda faded, it's not a very good guitar, but it'll work. Nikki goes and plugs it in and starts tuning it.

Orphen will just chill at the bar. He can reach the sound controls from the bar as its dead center of the club. This aught to be interesting at least...

"Alright, Sean, you wanna follow my lead?" Nikki asks as she fiddles with knobs on the amp she plugged the guitar into, strumming once in a while to test for the optimum level of distortion.

Sean finishes his kit kat and wipes his hands on his jeans, "Sounds good to me." He says with a smile to nikki.

Sean plays through a few scales while he waits for nikki to tune up.

"Alright, let's try this," Nikki says as she sets up a mic to the right height for her.
She lets loose a growl, warming up her vocal cords a bit.
"Alright, I'll get started, just follow along when you catch the riff, right? This is gonna be a little fucked up without drums, so you'll be my rhythm section all by yourself."

((2008-08-04 21:29:22 Nikki rolls 9 dice to Cha + Perform guitar 8,10,9,3,2, 3,7,9,1 (4 successes)))

((2008-08-04 21:30:19 Nikki rolls 9 dice to Cha + Perform vocal 4,9,7,9,5, 4,9,5,1 (3 successes)))

http://www.leviatan-magazine.com/sample%20songs/Arch_Enemy_RevolutionBegins.mp3

2008-08-05 13:58:20 sean rolls 7 dice to jammin with nikki 7,7,6,10,9, 7,10 (7 successes)

Sean picks up on the song very quickly and makes his own bass line, its very fast diffrent from what hes used to but he seems to enjoy himself. He dances around while he plays as he always does not realy suiting the type of music he is playing.

"Oh ho ho!" exclaims Nikki. "That is some mighty fine bass playing indeed, Sean!"
She is obviously enjoying the hell out of this jam session, grinning and dancing around, jumping up and down.

Sean finishes playing and places the bass on the stage turning the amp off.

He turns to Orphen "Can i leave this here?"

He turns to nikki, "Nice sesh, hope you get some more people to join your band. if you dont have a turn out we could add you into the electrified fetuses? Make a kinda Ska slash metal band."

He walks back towards the stairs and ribbets to orphen as he pretends to lick an imaginary thing in his hand.

She smiles. "Yeah, that was great! If I get more people and I can't find a bass player, you are definitely in! I'll think about the ...electrified fetuses? Fantastic band name!"
Peals of laughter ring out through the microphone. "Man, I love it!"

'Are you kidding me? You really have a cage full of hallucinagenic toads in my basement and pretended they were normal?..'

Orphen almost looks insulted.