“You’re right about those father-son moments too, ma’am. I’m half-convinced it’s only to keep tabs on how the competition does things.” He owns another barber shop, on the other side of town. As you say, people who just want a haircut have other options. “You’re right, Miss Malveaux, that atmosphere is something we consider carefully in a place like this. I think most would rather their children learn as much from this place, rather than occupy their attention while here.” In truth though, if they really do want to entertain their children and be left alone, their phones these days are the easy option.
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Something they can use to entertain their children if need be from their own past, but that requires their ascent. Perhaps a vintage pinball machine, coin fed. If you felt compelled to, Aedile Hurst, I would do so carefully. “I’d not interrupt that careful harmony with a bunch of games that damage the atmosphere and distract from the image. “For them this is a place where, if they bring their sons, they can introduce them to masculine ways.” She chuckles, remembering her visits from her childhood more in feelings than specifics. There are cheaper, more modern, places to get a haircut, and a shave can await them in their bathroom sink if they truly desire.” Her gaze sweeps across the retro barber shop.
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“For much of the clientèle here, I imagine it must be much the same. I was only an interloper until they were old enough.” There’s an almost wistfulness to her commentary. “Something about how it’s part of the world of men, that he wanted to share with his ‘boys’. Only really when I was really young,” she gestures to the barber shop, “though I know he still makes use of them, and that he brought my brothers with him with some frequency-and perhaps still does.” She smiles. “What do you think, Miss Malveaux-how should we keep the younger customers entertained?” Hurst asks.Ĭaroline: Caroline mulls the idea for only a moment before responding, “My father, among the kine, rarely brought me to a place like this. It can be a fine line to straddle, though, and ‘spirit’ can be an easy thing to get wrong, or just slightly off-kilter. Lots of businesses these days like to go for a retro modern look embracing the new while evoking the spirit of the old. On the other hand, there are drawbacks to looking too retro-especially for Kindred. Another barber thought that sounded good initially, but then, maybe not: they have magazines and “kids oughta read more these days.” Part of the shop’s appeal with their customers is its retro image, too.
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McCullem talks literal shop with his domitor about how the business is doing: he starts with how one of the younger barbers suggested they install gaming consoles to keep the kids entertained. Hurst chuckles as he greets the ghoul and sits down with him on one of the old-fashioned red leather chairs. He greets them with a, “Miss Malveaux, Master Gabe-forgive me, Aedile Hurst with company around,” the silver-mustached ghoul says with a wink. John McCullem is gumming an unlit cigar in his mouth and tidying up the empty shop as the two Ventrue step inside to the sound of a chiming shop’s door. The older Ventrue drives it himself and stops off first at Cullem’s Cuts, the barber shop where Caroline met his ghoul what seems like another era ago. GM: The two get into Hurst’s silver, slightly older-model Ford. We’ll be goin’ on a field trip.”Ĭaroline: “As you will, Aedile Hurst.” She adopts an intrigued, and perhaps amused, smile.
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GM: “Your sire and my sister, as it may be,” Hurst answers in a thick Louisiana drawl as he rises from kissing Caroline’s hand. He’s seated on the couch where Caroline normally finds Becky Lynne and working on a laptop rather than tablet as a ghoul ushers her into the sitting room and introduces its occupant as “The Honorable Gabriel Hurst, Primogen, Esquire, Aedile, Knight Bachelor of the Order of the White Cross, and Deacon.”Ĭaroline: Caroline shows enough surprise to be polite, and after introductions are exchanged continues coyly, “Aedile Hurst, to what do I owe the honor of your attention this evening?” He’s dressed in a gray jacket and pants with a light blue button-up shirt and no tie. Gabriel Hurst is a rectangular-faced man seemingly in his late 20s or early 30s with thick black hair, a short beard of the same color, and bright blue eyes. The Ventrue is not there, but the vampire who has been described as her broodmate is. GM: Caroline’s next meeting with a clanmate after Marcel takes her back to the same house in the Garden District where she usually meets Becky Lynne. “There’s never any shortage o’ room at the bottom.”