[Day: Saturday, April 16th. Time: 2:50 p.m.] [Weather: Rainy. Heavily rainy. There's thunder, too! Ooooh.] [Lockers, yo!] [Session Start] * Haruko walks down the hallway reading Lord of the Flies. She's made some progress into it. * Satoshi is at his locker, as per usual. He waves at Haruko when he sees her. * Haruko is currently actively reading. She gets to a locker, leans against it, and then looks up and waves at Satoshi. Hey, Haruko. What are you reading? * Taki walks up the hall; she's wearing her coat and still looks a bit out of it. Hi Satoshi. English book ::although she's clearly got a translated copy:: called Lord of the Flies. About a bunch of kids that get stuck on an island and start acting like savages because there's nothing to rein them in. Masaru recommended it. * Satoshi looks slightly confused but nods. Then he waves to Taki. (The fat kid is called "Piigu".) * Katie comes walking down the hall right now. "It's a classic," she says quietly as she nears. "I read it for school two years ago." * Taki waves back at Satoshi a moment later. "Hi... I, uhm, missed you yesterday." * Haruko notes Satoshi's look and elaborates. "Not all that different than what we're facing. Although we've got cars, so things are much better on that score." * Katie glances everyone in the eye, then goes about messing with her locker. She opens it and starts swapping books. * Haruko goes back to reading for the moment. Sorry. Had to reschedule a checkup. Kinda last-minute. * Satoshi looks over at Haruko and chuckles. "You would think about cars." * Taki nods at Satoshi. "Th... that's alright." Then she walks over to where Katie is swapping books. * Haruko grins. "What, you think I'm wrong? We're *so* better off because we have cars." Cars for you, hockey for me, I guess. Unless the island has a frozen pond. * Haruko thinks. "No frozen pond so far. So that's two things." * Katie doesn't skip a beat, pulling a paperback, English book out of her locker and handing it to Taki. It, too, is titled, "Lord of the Flies". It's dog-eared in a number of places, and if Taki flips through, she can see sentences and words underlined, as well as little notes scribbled in Katie's handwriting in the margins, usually pertaining to this symbol or that. * Taki takes the books, opens it to the wrong end, shakes her head and then goes to the begining. (Piggu could have had a happy life as a mascot) (Piggu. HA.) * Haruko glances over at Taki's reading the English book and looks briefly impressed but doesn't comment. She goes back to reading. * Taki looks back up at Katie. "Th... thanks Katie... I'll give it back when I'm done." You're welcome. * Katie tucks away the last book, then pulls out her umbrella and a raincoat. She drops her satchel on the floor to pull said raincoat on. Protection from bad weather! Who'd have thunk? Shall we check out the watcher sites today or follow up on Izumi's brother's missing friend. Watcher sites? * Taki skips ahead to the first dogear, scans the page and then pulls her backpack around to her front so she can put the book in and take her battered umbrella out. The two places with the freaky cloaked figures that don't do anything. ... It... might be the same place for both. * Katie straightens her jacket, then picks up her satchel before turning to the others. "Kaede said he's going to meet with Soleil." * Haruko looks surprised and frowns slightly. "Oh." She then shrugs. "Did he want company?" * Katie shrugs. "You can call him." * Haruko puts away her book and does just that. [Toshiki enters through the front doors, folding an umbrella. He waves as he walks by. "Hey, there. 'Afternoon." He doesn't slow at all.] * Haruko gives a friendly wave in response. He's now on her comparatively nice list. Says something about who he's compared to. Yo. * Taki pauses halfway through swinging her backpack back into place when he walks by and then finishes. Hi Toshiki. * Haruko frowns. "No answer." She then sends him a text message. "MikoMechanic: You want company when with Soliel? If not, want us to wait on watchers?" * Katie looks to Taki. "Do you want to at least take us to where you saw the black thing?" * Taki looks at Katie. "I... don't remember which intersection it is... I'd have to go back to ... to the Tower ... or that church to find it again. Sorry." * Haruko looks up after she types. "We may want to wait on Kaede for that. Normally I wouldn't, but..." She bites her lip for a moment and thinks. "He actually sounded like he had *hope* when he talked about it," * Katie lets out a long sigh. "All right." * Haruko frowns at Katie's sighs. "I've texted him about it. He may give us the go ahead." [A few minutes later, a girl bursts in through the doors. "Toshiki? Dammit, where'd you go?" She looks suspiciously like the girl with the tentacles coming from her back. 'Cept there's no tentacles.] He might be busy. I mean, he- * Taki blinks at the girl. * Katie stops, looking to the girl. But she doesn't recognize her! Wonder why. * Haruko looks up and doesn't recognize her. She glances for a second at her compatriats. * Satoshi says, quietly, "She's one of the Jackals. The tentacle-girl." [She blinks a few times and looks you over. "Well, at least this is the right place. Have you seen a blond guy?"] * Katie looks briefly thoughtful, then nods. She steps forward, addressing the girl. "Toshiki, right? I think I know where he went." * Haruko looks up to the tentacle girl. "Hello. And yes, but he'll probably be busy for a bit." He's ...uhm.... probably kinda buisy right now. (We're the same suit, can you tell?) With what? "" * Haruko 's tone is friendly but has a slight note of amusement mixed with a bit of disdain. "Pleasure fight." Pleasure fight? No, wait, don't tell me. That bitch he likes goes here too? * Taki nods. * Taki just nods at the girl then. (So Satoshi's line is just "Yep.") * Girl suddenly points her finger at Satoshi. "Hey! I know you!" * Haruko lets Satoshi handle this for a bit. * Katie just, er, watches. And listens. Yeah, we met a while ago. I don't remember your name, though. [Haruko finally gets a text message back! KTakeuchi: Company is not necessary. Mapping out the location of the watchers would still be useful though. Do what you feel is best.] You're that guy! That was with that other guy! You know, the nerdy asshole." * Satoshi snorts softly. "I'm Satoshi, and the other guy's Kaede." * Taki blinks and then brings her free hand up cover her mouth. * Girl cups her chin, looking everyone over. "Come to think of it....... haven't I seen you all somewhere before?" * Haruko grins and bows. "Haruko. We were both at Serizawa not long ago." ( Interestingly, Hotdog eating contests are the only thing a Japanese person can win... and still bring dishonor to his family.) Oh, right, right.... What was your name? I apologize if you mentioned it then and I forgot. * Haruko phone beeped with the text message, but she's ignoring it for the moment. (I KNEW Kaede's text message name would be KTakeuchi. Knew it knew it.) (*snerk*) (Because he's used it before ;P) (And it has no originality!) (Yes.) (I was betting it'd be. Im_KTakeuchi_Bitch) (Although lucky him not having to add numbers to it) (...ha.) (Showed you, Greg!) (I think Arcana predates Dave Chapelle.) (Ah, that's why it isn't.) (^_~) * Girl gestures to herself. "I'm Akari! Akari Toshibara. I'd say nice to meet you, but I don't think we're actually on the same side." * Girl is now known as Akari (* Kaede punches someone in the forehead and shouts. "Unityyyyy") (For the record, Satoshi's is "Watanabe9." I think you guys know what the number is for.) * Katie tilts her head. "I don't remember meeting you." She sounds vaguely puzzled. (Go Hockey!) I don't think you were there. Well, we are allies of Matthias, but we have no grudge against you. So I'm happy to meet you. * Akari puffs her cheek. "Matthias is a big jerk!" * Haruko looks curious. "Why don't you like him?" He transferred into school and suddenly started acting like he owned the place and could boss us around! That's a good reason. True. * Akari nods. "Uh-huh! I don't know why we hafta listen to him, but Akito said so. I can't believe he's letting himself be pushed around like that!" Ahh.. right, you go to the same school. I forgot that. ::she blushes slightly:: Despite seeing you at the same school. He might not be letting himself be pushed around. * Taki nods again. "Is too. Before Matthias came along, Akito was SOOOOO cool! He didn't take lip from ANYbody." She gestures wildly. * Haruko nods. "What does Matthias tell you to do?" * Akari folds her arms. "But now he's turned into such a wimp! He's not good enough to lead the Jackals anymore. He should give up leadership to Kei." She nods sagely. "Kei is much better." * Katie opens her mouth to say something, then gets cut off and closes it. Kei? * Akari nods. "Uh huh! Don't tell me you don't remember him." * Taki fidgets with her umbrella. I've got a bad memory. Sorry. * Haruko hints at a frown for a moment, but she suppresses it. "I do, he had goggles, right?" * Katie looks at Satoshi. "It's okay," she says in that same, quiet voice. "I don't have anything to remember." * Akari nods at Haruko. "Yeah! Isn't he a hunk?" * Satoshi half-smiles at Katie. [She looks like she's about to speak when Toshiki comes back downstairs. "Damn, she's not here today."] * Katie looks at Toshiki. "You were up there all that time, waiting for her?" ( I don't see the description in 141.) * Akari rushes over at him. "Hey!" Toshiki blinks. "Aka- ack!" and throws up an arm as she starts beating on him with both hands. "Akari, quit it!"] ( Neither do I, actually. But I remember doing it. ) (Well for now, is a hunk? :P) ( He doesn't really stand out as particularly attractive ) (They met them at the house Tenjirou and Ryo had kept Katie in.) * Haruko smiles to herself and watches the Akari-Toshiki confrontation. (He's a hunk...of beef.) (Inside, at the other side of the room, there's a tall, lanky teenager. He's got black hair, parted down the middle. He's wearing cargo pants and a sleeveless green shirt, as well as riding goggles.) * Taki continues to fidget with her umbrella. (Doesn't seem particularly attractive to me.) (What session was that?) (But riding goggles are HAWT) (*Riding* goggles? Okay.) (138) * Akari puts her hands on her hips and glares at him. "How could you leave a girl alone in the rain like that?" 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 9. [Toshiki rolls his eyes. "What is this, the seventies? Chivalry is dead, yo."] He's right. Girls are supposed to hold doors open for guys these days. Actually, I hold doors for both. I... uhm... kinda... whoever gets there first. * Akari stomps on his foot. "You jerk!" He grimaces and withdraws quickly. "Hey, I didn't make you follow me."] (Chivalry is dead because the princesses are long gone :P) * Haruko shrugs and smiles slightly. "I don't mind when people hold open doors for me." * Akari folds her arms. "We were supposed to go together!" [Toshiki scratches his head. "We were? News to me. I was just here to see my girlfriend."] What?! You don't have a girlfriend! [He winks. "Not yet." Then he starts past her.] * Akari turns around. "Hey! What about the girl?" * Katie lets them talk. She watches. [He stops and turns around. "Huh? Oh, right...." Then he grins and turns around, continuing on his way. "Don't care!"] What girl? * Akari calls after him. "I'll tell on you!" He just waves without looking back. * Haruko looks curious and nods at Satoshi's comment. * Katie rubs at one of her ears. Oh, um... Do you know a Yuki Ijima? * Akari smiles. "I kinda wanted to talk to her." * Katie shakes her head. "The name doesn't sound familiar." * Satoshi shakes his head. "Don't remember meeting her." * Akari pouts. "Ooooh.... Fine, I'll just look around. Maybe I'll run into her." * Taki shakes her own head a bit. * Akari heads off! Oh Akari! * Akari stops and looks over her shoulder. "What?" * Haruko smiles. "I do have to admit the goggles are cute. But would he stop thugs going after some fairly helpless looking women?" * Taki blinks. "I ... uhm..." Huh? What kinda question is that? Look, I'm in a hurry. I gotta go find this lady. Bye! * Akari rushes off! Could we get Kaede to look up this Yuki Ijima? I... think she was... on that page Katie wa.... Oh. * Haruko shrugs and looks to Taki and blinks and runs after Akari. "We remembered something about her. It might mean she's in danger." I think he's bus- what? * Katie blinks as Haruko runs, then hurries after her. "What's going on?" * Satoshi runs after Katie. "Hold on!" * Katie stops and looks to Satoshi. * Satoshi catches up to her. "Sorry. I want to find out what's going on, too." He motions that they should keep going. * Taki follows the others. (Then you say "Wait for me!" Satoshi, not "Hold on!" ;P) * Haruko keeps running if Akari doesn't immediately stop. * Katie keeps going, then. (Whatever. 9_9) * Akari stops as you catch up. "What?" * Haruko catches her breath for a second. "You know about the drugs and the kidnappings, right?" * Katie blinks as Haruko says that. Yeah. And? One of our people was kidnapped. She showed up on a 'hot or not' site shortly therafter with a picture taken after she was kidnapped. Yuki was on the same site and put there by the same person. * Katie opens her mouth, then closes it. (AFK a sec to stretch my legs.) Oh. I didn't know that. Weird. * Taki catches up. * Haruko nods. "We aren't sure if they were all kidnapped. We've been trying to track them down using yearbooks but haven't had any luck yet." ( What session was that? ) (I don't have the session numbers in my logs, but it was Wed, April 6th when she showed up on the page) (We talk about it in 141) (I think that was why we were at the school) (Yes, Katie really *is* clueless! Hooray.) ( Do you remember what she was rated? :P ) (We didn't get those I think. :P) (Although Kaede did save all the pictures. ) ([9:36:12] [Taki notices on the site, a name she vaguely recognizes: Yuki Ijima. She's never seem the person in the photo before, though: A rather plain looking girl in a turtle-neck sweater. But the name stands out.) * Akari shrugs. "Maybe she posted her own picture up there." (It was posted by Arcana7, right?) (Yeah, she is the girl who got special permission to wear long sleeves and skirts.) (Mostly the skirt. We all wear long sleeves. ;P) ( Arcanico7 ) * Haruko shakes her head. "No, she was posted by Arcanico7, the same that posted our kidnap victim. If she posted it herself, she's connected to the drug poster somehow." Oh. * Haruko nods. "We think the poster was Tenjirou Torajima. His power is to make women love and obey him and he was one of the kidnappers. So it seems like his style." * Taki nods. * Katie gets a distant look on her face as she stares past Akari. * Taki also glances at Katie. It was Tenjirou. * Satoshi gives Katie a worried glance out of the corner of his eye. * Akari watches Haruko. What do you have on her? If we compare notes we may be able to give you something more. * Katie speaks softly as she looks at nothing. "When Saki showed up to save me, she mentioned the site." She licks her lips, then continues, "Ryo blamed Tenjirou." * Akari tilts her head. "Okay..." * Taki looks firmly at her feet. "But... um.... more of what, exactly?" * Haruko nods. "Well, we know a fair amount about Tenjirou. Presumably you're interested because she may have ties to the drug kidnappings, right?" * Akari shrugs. "Not really." Oh? Why'd she catch your attention? She missing? * Akari tilts her head, the other way this time. "I hope not. I didn't come all this way in the rain just for her to not be here." Well, we know this school better than you. Want us to show you around? Might help you find her. * Akari grins. "Thanks, but it's not that big of a school. I can manage." * Katie blinks, snapping out of it, and goes back to watching Akari and Haruko. * Taki looks back up at Akari. "Uhm... Wh... why are you looking for her?" * Haruko nods. "It isn't at that. Only thing we've got a lot of is afterschool clubs." She grins. "Anyways, Akito was once ready to kick some butt when he thought I was a helpless girl being threatened. That's part of why I think he's hot." * Haruko shrugs as she says that and doesn't really emphasize her words. She glances over to Taki, curious if the knight will get an answer. * Akari huffs. "Akito lets himself be pushed around by a pansy." She looks down at her watch. "And I really gotta start looking. If she's left by now I'll be out of luck. Sorry! See you around." She hurries down the hall. * Katie waves. "Bye." * Haruko lets Akari go. She looks to the others, waits a few moments, and queries, "Did we know Yuki went here?" * Satoshi shakes his head. * Haruko thinks for a moment. "What clubs are meeting today?" * Taki shakes her head. "I... Everything from then's kinda blurry." * Haruko then blinks and glances at her phone. She reads the message and nods. (Brett: Any clubs that draw a lot of people meeting today?) ( Probably :P ) (Like...?) Okay, we want to deal with the watchers today or want to beat Akari to Yuki? ( Oh god. Ummm... ) (You're trying to extract nouns? From Brett?!) (Could get verbs. :P) (Writing, fencing... ;P) (Nouns...proper? Sure. Lu Bu, Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao...) ( Art club, drama club, first-aid club... bunch sports that are cancelled due to rain... ) (First Aid Club? Dude! All of the Arcana should be there.) (Seriously.) (Wouldn't do us any good. We don't have any SP to spend on it!) (Tenjirou's there. He's learning "CPR".) ( Let's throw on the swim team for good measure. ) * Katie shrugs at Haruko. "You know what's going on better than I do." (Or maybe Hirokazu.) (Oh gods, the swim team. Now there's a plot we haven't touched on in a while.) (I'd say the less we deal with Remi, the better.) (That goes for both Remis) * Haruko looks for comments from the others. * Taki shakes her head. "I'm... still not... She's closer." ( That's because the NPC on the swim team is meant to interact with a PC who hasn't been around for over a year <.< ) ( Oh, this sword? I've been keeping it in my locker for when Kyon gets back. Bastard'll never know what hit him.) * Haruko frowns at the lack of clear response but then looks resolute. "Okay, it's getting late, Yuki is long gone unless she's at a club. We could all split up and check clubs, but that's probably unsafe and unproductive. I say two of us go to the library, check yearbook indexes for her. The other two go to the lab to get her picture and check the net." * Haruko checks around if there's any disagreement. I... * Taki trails off and shakes her head. * Haruko looks at Taki with curiosity. "No, what were you going to say? You may have a better idea." What about going to check the watchers? * Taki looks up. "I... don't think I'll be much help with the computers... So... library." * Katie nods at Satoshi. "Why are we looking for pictures of her in the yearbook?" Clubs pictures are in the yearbook. If she's been going to one for a while that might help us. Even if it isn't a club that meets today we might find out something about her. (At least they have been in every yearbook I've seen) (If she's not in a club that meets today we could just do info gathering off screen and start tomorrow.) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 9. (DR1) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 9. (... DR2 just 'cause!) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katie (2d6) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 7. * Katie thinks. "Uh, Haruko." * Haruko looks to Katie. She transferred in recently. She can't be in a yearbook. I remember reading it in the paper. * Taki blinks at Katie and then looks away from her. * Haruko nods. "Good to know, and you're right, the yearbook wouldn't help then." She frowns again and thinks. [Session End]