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[[module CSS]] #page-title { display: none; } [[/module]] [[include theme:3law]] [[include theme:3law-pride]] [[>]] [[module Rate]] [[/>]] [[=]] + Rich Man's World ++ Or: How Mister Dark Got Her Groove Back [[/=]] Marshall, Carter and Dark, LLC, is due for a change in management. Mr. Marshall and Mr. Carter have chosen their successors; Mr. Dark's, unfortunately, does not want the job. [[=]] +++ Main Sequence: Iris I Was A Rich Man [[/=]] * **[[[When Situations Degenerate]]]** -- Mister Marshall, Mister Carter, and Mister Dark meet to discuss their finances, their families, and their futures. * **[[[Get Out Of Her Way]]]** -- Iris Black breaks her wrist, the speed limit, and several federal statutes regarding public use of thaumaturgy to make it to class on time. * **[[[They Laid Down The Law]]]** -- Six or eight thousand years ago, two men bound a god. Four thousand years ago, their descendants almost lost it. * **[[[Blind to the Big Surprise]]]** -- Hotdogs. Office furniture. A little light bondage. Iris gets professional help; Marshall and Carter face the music. * **[[[Latest Model Getaway Jeep]]]** -- Iris meets the Black Queens. Marshall and Carter meet the antichrist. One of these meetings goes well. * **[[[disgusting-things|Disgusting Things You'd Never Anticipate]]]** -- Iris Black is dead. Long live Iris Dark. ------ [[=]] +++ Dramatis Personae **Marshalls, Carters, and Darks** [[<]] * **Amos Marshall:** Patriarch of the Marshall family and a senior partner of Marshall, Carter and Dark. Likes haute cuisine, war profiteering, and bulldozing community centers to build luxury condos. * **Rupert Carter:** Patriarch of the Carter family and a senior partner of Marshall, Carter and Dark. Likes fine wine, tax evasion, and crushing the dreams of the young. * **Mister Dark:** An ancient spirit of avarice and the most senior partner of Marshall, Carter and Dark. Likes profits. Currently occupying the corpse of Percival Black. * **Chrysophilus "Skitter" Marshall:** A rich layabout from the Marshall family and junior partner of Marshall, Carter and Dark. Grand-nephew of Amos Marshall. Likes garish suits, designer demonarcotics, and being obeyed without question. * **Alphonse Cartier:** A rich layabout from the French branch of the Carter family and junior partner of Marshall, Carter and Dark. Second cousin twice removed of Rupert Carter. Likes fast cars, designer clothes, and nibbling on other people's souls. * **Iris Black:** A poor college student from Three Portlands, and Mister Dark's choice for his next host. Granddaughter of Percival Black. Likes roller derby, experimental thaumatology, and not getting her corpse possessed by an ancient spirit of avarice. = **Assorted Royalty** * **Gwenhwyfar Thistlebranch:** Eleventh in line to the Sidhe monarchy, heir to the Thistlebranch Publishing fortune, and Deer Student Body President-In-Exile. Iris Black's roommate. Likes cryptozoology, pastel goth aesthetics moodboards, and being obeyed without question. * **Mordecai Diabolus:** Alleged antichrist, Prince of Hell and also of Atlantic City, and Deer Student Body President-For-Life. Gwen's enemy-with-benefits. Likes high-stakes poker, light bondage, and nibbling on other people's souls. * **Alliott Chao:** Fashion designer, interdimensional arms dealer, and captain of Three Portlands' worst roller derby team. A Black Queen, but not the local Black Queen. Likes hot dogs, high-caliber ammunition, and having just so many irons in the fire. * **Alex Chao:** Another Black Queen, but also not the local one. Likes hanging out with her multiversal counterparts, long walks on the beach, and shenanigans. * **Aleison Chaoley:** Babalon, the Scarlet Woman, Mother of Abominations and Gateway to the City of Pyramids. Yet another Black Queen, from a universe with a hundred-year time lag to our own. Likes mountain climbing, spelling "magick" with a "k", and infamy. * **Sargon of Akkad:** No, not that one. The original one. Likes conquering Mesopotamia, establishing the world's first multi-ethnic empire, and gardening. [[/<]] [[/=]]