13120/Quite the Legacy

Quite the Legacy
Date of Scene:	20 October 2022
Location:	The Public House - Hellfire Club
Synopsis:	Emma talks to Toni about Shaw.
Cast of Characters:	Emma Frost, Toni Monetti

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Emma Frost has posed:
THe Public House is probably the locale about as 'open' to the public when there's no soiree as anything in the locale. There's a cover charge, the food is expensive, and one has to 'know' someone to get in. But beyond that the gatekeeping is reasonable, by hte standards of the Club, at least. Emma is currensly sitting over in the common area, sitting over at a table while sipping from a goblet of wine.

Toni Monetti has posed:
Toni Monetti knows a guy.

The guy is her father, who has had several fundraisers at this fine institution!

She also apparently had a cancelled flight. "This is really kind of you guys to help me out like this," Toni tells the waitress - who is in a tight but not quite, standard-for-the-soiree occasion - who is showing her to one of the private tables. "So you can arrange the Uber to the airport at butt o' clock too?"

'Yes,' the waitress replies. 'The... Uber. Here, please accept the bill of fare.' "Thanks," Toni says.

She is four feet from Emma Frost. Toni turns her head to look at the solitary dining woman and say, "Hey," while half-smiling. "You look *great.*"

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would turn over at Toni while smiling, "Ah, hello there." She would gesture over at TOni, "And please, do feel free to join me. And who might you be?" Emma attempts a quick scan of the mind of her sudden conversation companion. There was perhpas something useful to get ou tof it so she might as well.

"And what brings you to the Club? You don't seem the normal type." By which she meant that Toni did not remotely look like she was rich enough to qualify as a trust fund brat.

Toni Monetti has posed:
Toni is pretty fashionable, but she doesn't radiate wealth. Especially now, clearly recently from an airplane. "Oh thanks," she says, picking up her card and walking over to sit across from Emma, pausing to look at it. Her mind is frizzling and bright, vaguely off-putting in a way that's hard to easily defined, but may be due to sustained drug use (or something else).

Toni pauses. "Oh," she says, "you can tell? I guess my makeup's all shitty right now. I assume you're talking about, y'know," she gestures at her face. It is very clear in her thoughts: she absolutely thinks i'm a mutant, lol

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would glance over at Toni, "You look too haphazard. If here wasn't your immedaite first priority to arrive to, you'd have taken teh time to properly prepare yourself for it. This place has quite the entrance reputation. So unless you're -rather- well off, then you're not likely to get far. And if you were rather well off I think I'd notice you so. So given you are in here either my assumptions are incorrect, or you snuck in. EIther of which is no doubt an amusing tale."

Toni Monetti has posed:
Hm, Toni thinks. She definitely isn't gonna just jump for it.

"My father's a member," Toni continues with a quirk of a smile. "I think he doesn't really get it but he's like absolutely fine with me crashing here and he told me there's a great concierge kind of thing if your flight gets cancelled? So I guess we're gonna find out. Part of it is dinner, apparently, and I have to ask you, what would you recommend?"

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would ah, "So you're a legacy then? That would explain it. And here is quite adept at serving a wide variety of quisine. It does, however, specialize in well cooked steaks so I would recommend them. Along with your preferred staple of alcohol. Merely have it charged to your father's account if he's a legacy."

Toni Monetti has posed:
"You know, steak sounds pretty good," Toni says. She blinks once, then, and says, "Hey, shit, that's right. That Shaw guy can't tell me not to drink now, can he?"

Helpfully, the waitress swings by here. "Yeah I'll have the eight-ounce rib eye with the shrimp on it. Asparagus is fine. Just bring it out with the salad? I wanna crash. OH, and give me a glass of red with it." ALL CLASS.

"I have my own card," Toni says, "so that's fine." A beat passes. "Of course, it all goes to the same place, I guess."

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would chuckle, "Oh? And you've encountered the caretaker of this establishment? And were you on a first name basis with him then?" Or moreso n the 'riff raff' level of the scale, as Emma might put it in more polite company. Gesturing over at Toni. "Please, do feel free to put it on whatever. I'm sure that your family has a line of credit for this establishment which you are of course authorized to have access to."

Daddy wouldn't notice a few thousand dollars missing in all likelihood.

Toni Monetti has posed:
"I met him at a party last year," Toni says. "And Shaw is his *last* name, I know that much. I don't think I know you but I know him a little bit. I think he was at one of the fundraisers." She shifts in her seat. Leaning forwards, she says, "He's a killjoy, but I can imagine, he was thinking of the club, because *at the time* I was not yet 21. That's a really arbitrary law but you look like you've heard that stuff, am I right?"

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would laugh, "I see. That does sound somewhat like him. I will hwoever note that Mister Shaw is considered rich by the standards of the club and also the one that is in charge of the establishment. So do think that when he's in the company of men like Warren Worthington, Tony Stark, and Bruce Wayne."

Toni Monetti has posed:
"Absolutely, but it's still kind of a dumb law, right? Like I wasn't paying for anything, it was an open bar," Toni says. "I mean I saw what people wear here, a twenty year old having champagne is not gonna be the worst thing happening *right now* in this building, like, morally."

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would laugh, "Quite. But Shaw is also the sort of man that if he tells you something, you do it. Whatever the rules are, if someone far above your station instructs you on one, then of course you obey them in the matter or it doesn't go well for you."

Toni Monetti has posed:
"I did do it," Toni says with a shrug of her shoulders, "but you know, still. So do YOU know him?"

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would smile, "I've been a member of the club for some years, and I've had the chances to interact with him to some degree at these public forums. He's a man of wealth, power, and reputation. One to take care of."

Toni Monetti has posed:
"Take care of," Toni says.

Beat, beat.

"Well, that's cool. I'm glad that you've had the chance to get to know him. He's pretty intense, huh?"

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would laugh, "I might assume. If you are feeling like a challenge, by all means do seek him out and see if you might earn his patronage. I'm sure that if you do you would find it most.. Advancing for yourself."