[Day: Monday, March 17th. Time: 2:50 p.m.] [Weather: Cloudy, windy, warm. Really great weather if you want the GM's opinion. And since he's the GM, you do.] [Saturday, you crashed a party! It didn't end well. Remi showed up and tried to kill Ayako, people were throwing things at Haruko, and Satoshi's goofy- looking. But! That was Saturday. Having had a nice day to rest up, you go back to school on Monday. It's just let out. Now what are you going to do?] [Session Start] * Haruko meanders down the hallway. She's got a technical article on diesel engines in her hands (the title page is flipped so you can tell) and seems fairly entranced. * Katie is sitting at her locker, reading and lightly humming to herself. Imagine that! ( /me imagines. Watch out for Godzilla, Katie! ) * Satoshi shuffles to his locker and does the book-exchanging thing. * Kaede walks down the hallway, a slight frown on his face. He's scribbling things in his notebook and typing into a calculator. He also has a bit of rings under his eyes. * Haruko eventually reaches a locker without too much incident and slides down on it. She gets out a bottle of water from her bag but keeps reading. [Satoshi's locker decides he is authorized and allows him to take his books.] (Haruko's been redesigning Satoshi's locker. :P ) (Hurrah!) (...you're just trying to keep me scared of you, aren't you, Haruko? ^_~) (Damn straight. ^_~) * Katie glances up from her book to Kaede. "Didn't get much sleep?" * Kaede looks up from his calculations over at Katie and keeps his expression neutral. "No." His eyes turn to Haruko and he walks over to her, standing in front of her. * Haruko looks up and grins. "Oh, good, you're here." She takes the cap off her water bottle and spills some on the floor. * Taki does her walking down the hall and not running down the Makotos thing. * Kaede keeps looking at Haruko curiously. "Excuse me?" * Satoshi watches Haruko pour water. "Um, why are you doing that?" We've got to go. * Satoshi blinks. "Go?" * Kaede points to Haruko. * Haruko glares at the water on the ground. "Bad water.. shouldn't be on the floor." She keeps glaring until it straightens out into a line. She's probibly going to show....Go? (*cracks up*) Yep! * Taki grins and nods twice. Hey, that's new. Neat! * Kaede lets out a scowl. "Yes. And you want to attract the whole school?" (Nothing can stand against the power of Haruko's glare! Except probably Kaede. ;p) * Katie blinks. "Nice magic trick. How do you do it? Magnets?" * Haruko then puts a coin at one end of the line and steps back. "If you can spare a modicum of power Kaede, make that coin spark. And.. err, Satoshi, keep random passerbys from seeing." No. I said we have to GO, Haruko-san. * Katie rolls her eyes and goes back to reading. * Haruko stands up. "You can argue with me, or you can take ten seconds to run the test. The later is quicker." * Taki nods, "I'm not sure where Kaede wants us to go, but I don't think the hall is the best place to be showig off new tricks." Look, I haven't been sleeping well. Doing that kind of stuff drains me. I'm not going to do it out in the open for pointless endevors. [Satoshi's got his work cut out for him; here comes Makoto and Makoto!] I promised Nanami I'd be bringing someone over new to help out. Did you forget? Guys, people coming. Maybe we'd better take this elsewhere? * Haruko glares. "Course I didn't forget." * Taki nods, "you can show off at the store!" Yeah, watching them argue is always more fun in the privacy of your own backyard. [Decide quick! Here they come!] * Haruko sighs and kneels over the spill. * Satoshi sighs. "That's not what I meant and you know it. But whatever." * Haruko waits until the Makotos pass. Well, if you didn't forget, then we need to go. I've been drawn away from it for too long already. [They're talking about some trivial information or other as they pass.] * Katie gives Satoshi a small smile. "I know." She looks at the others. "Let's just go, all right? And before I forget." She reaches into her satchel and pulls out a recorder, which she tosses to Haruko. * Haruko scrambles to catch it. "Thanks!" [Meanwhile Chikako shows up! "Hi everyone! Isn't the weather too cool today?"] Oh, heya, Chikako. It's a bit warm, but it's pretty nice. * Katie smiles as Chikako nears. "Hi Chikako. And I like it, yeah." * Kaede nods to Chikako. * Taki waves to Chikako, "Yep, looks like it's finaly starting to warm up. I hope it lasts." * Chikako nodnods. "Hey! Where were you guys on Saturday? Skipping class? That's not cool." Yeah. I'm sure that business will start picking up pretty soon. * Satoshi grins. "Aww, but I like the cold." * Haruko then goes back to kneeling by the water, holds the bottle at an angle about an inch off the ground and glares at it again. "And you're being entirely unfair to the janitorial staff, worse yet someone could trip and be hurt." The water pulls itself back into the bottle. We were...uh...otherwise detained. * Taki grins back at Satoshi, "It'll still be cold on the rink." * Kaede looks over at Katie and gives her a bit of a worried look. Yep! Which reminds me, I really do need to find out when the next game is. What do you mean? Where were you? Huh? * Haruko then picks up the bottle and closes it. "Alright, lets go. And Chikako, we were in the weird alternate dimension thing. We can tell you as we walk if you like, but I think Kaede's in a hurry." * Kaede frowns and whispers to Haruko harshly, but trying to keep Chikako from hearing. "Do you really think that's wise if her memory was wiped too...?" But I gotta go to the office! That's not cool. That's too bad, what do you need to do there? You do? Why? * Haruko glances back at Kaede. "Whiped too?" She then looks over to Chikako. "Oh, do you have a phone nunmber for Arisu?" 'Cause! Arisu skipped school today and I have to fill in. It's so uncool!" * Satoshi blinks. "She didn't come in? Have you heard from her recently?" * Kaede frowns even more and gives Katie another look. That's no good. * Haruko bites her lip. "Has Arisu skipped before?" Not since Saturday. She said she had a lead on this cool scoop. Uh-oh. That can't be good. ... * Katie frowns a little. "No, it can't. Maybe she got in trouble on her lead." * Kaede turns and walks out heavily. Right, so, rescue mission? And I'm thinking no Remi? Rescue? Huh? * Taki facepalms. * Haruko looks at Chikako. "Has she skipped before? Like to write up a big story?" * Satoshi rubs his arm. The bite marks are probably gone by now, and even if they aren't, they're hidden by his sleeves. * Chikako thinks. "Hmmmm.... Well, sometimes when she's on a big, big, really cool story like that one with the congressman a while back she forgets the time, so I'm sure it's cool. But she didn't tell me what the story was, either, just that it was really cool. * Haruko nods. "Do you have any way of getting in contact with her?" I tried calling her, but she didn't answer. Sometimes she forgets her phone, though. * Katie gets to her feet, picking up her satchel as she does so. "Back in a bit." She heads out quickly after Kaede. * Haruko nods and gets out her phone. "Mind giving me her number? Might come in handy later." * Taki waves to Katie and then turns to Chikako, "We can go look for her if you want, I wasn't planning on doing anything today anyway." * Chikako scribbles it down on a paper. "It's got four zeroes in it! Isn't that cool?" She hands it to Haruko. That is an above-average number of zeroes, yeah. Although if she's on some big story it'll probibly be hard to find her. * Haruko grins. "Yup, easy to remember." She then takes it and copies the number into her phone." * Chikako blinks a few times. "Hey, where'd Katie go? And where's Kyon?" * Haruko dials the number, just to check. After Kaede, and I don't know. Katie followed Kaede, and they probibly went to his store, "I haven't seen Kyon all day." * Taki then nods at Satoshi. Oh. Cool. Well, I'd better go to the office. Bye! * Chikako runs off. Zoom! * Haruko waves. "See ya." Bye! * Taki waits untill she's out of sight, "No newspapers...she must be worried." * Haruko then glances around and slowly walks after Kaede and Katie, but talks to Satoshi and Taki as she goes. "How did you guys interpret Ayako's line about Eiko as a servent. Just a social caste insult, or like drugged out servent?" Yeah, really. Unless she was waiting on Arisu's article or something. I'm hoping she did it just to goad Remi into attacking her in front of a room full of people. * Haruko nods. "That's what I was thinking, but... Arisu was investigating Ayako that night..." And we left her there...Did we manage to do anything right? And now Arisu's gone. But you'd think she'd avoid drawing attention to herself like that. Then again, Arisu probably didn't tell anyone *where* she was going. * Haruko nods. "We kept Remi out of jail. For now." For now. I'm thinking Arisu got caught in her investigation. That's what I'm afraid of. So do we go back and ask if they've seen her...Nah, they wouldn't tell us anything usefull anyway... * Haruko sighs. "Alright, I promised Kaede to put in store time. How about you guys do some investigation and find out if Arisu's really gone." You can also ask Yuji and/or Yumi if they know if Eiko's genuinely missing too. * Haruko puts the recorder and water into her backpack. * Taki tries to figure out why they'd know, but nods slowly anyway. * Haruko 's not a mind reader, so she doesn't explain her rationale. :P * Satoshi is a mind reader, but he's not doing it right now. ;p You guys do remember how to get to Yuji's place, right? * Taki turns to Satoshi, "So do you want to go looking for Arisu or Eiko first? Or go to the shop and ask the Ks what they think?" Might as well let Katie and Kaede know what we think might be going on. * Haruko then glances at Taki. "Well, I'm going there anyways." * Taki nods. Off we go then. * Haruko gets moving. * Taki walks to the store. [You go outside, where Kaede's angsting and Katie's goading him on.] * Kyon is sitting next to his bike outside the front gate, talking on his cell phone. He's facing away from the school, down the street. * Haruko glances at Kaede a bit surprised. "You're still here? Well, I figure we can send Taki, Satoshi, and Katie, if she likes, investigating, and you and I can go do the store." * Taki nods. [They look at you funny when you come out. Maybe they're plotting against you.] * Katie waves as they walk out. She and Kaede are still a good ways away from Kyon. You mean investigate Ayako's place? * Haruko shakes her head. "First to figure out if Arisu and Eiko are really missing. If we go to Ayako's, we should all go." Well, maybe not dir... ::trails off as Haruko talks:: Where else would they be though? * Haruko gives an apologetic to smile as she overruns Taki. Arisu might not actually be missing. Eiko might just be avoiding Remi. Best to be sure before we go all out. * Taki makes don't worry about it gestures at Haruko, and then nods. You're thinking before you jump? That must be a first. Yes, but if we hesitate... * Kaede rubs his head. "Alright. I'll go to the shop." * Haruko gives a brief glare at Katie, but then smiles and looks back at Kaede. "Cool. Time does matter, so, mind dropping us off Taki? There a safe place at the shop to port into?" * Taki blinks as Katie and Kaede seem to have switched bodies without telling anyone in advance. (*That's* what happened while we were still inside!) (Damn, would have liked to see that.) Hmm, maybe around in the back... * Katie glances over at Kyon, then sneaks up on him. Well, not really sneaks, but yeah. Nah, there might be somebody there too...It isn't that far. * Kyon doesn't seem to notice. He's still on the phone, rocking his weight on and off of the bike. So let's go, then. Or whatever it is we're doing. Fine. Haruko, you think you can ride on my bike? * Katie waits for him to notice, then. And listens to half of the conversation, because she can't help herself. * Haruko shrugs. "We should designate a closet or something for this purpose in the future. But sure, can do." * Haruko then grins. "Be sure to pedal fast." I'm not used to riding with the extra weight. How are we all going to fit into a closet? Never mind. You could go there by yourself and then call me. * Taki grins at Satoshi, "Very carefully of course." * Kaede then turns to the others. "Call me if you find out anything. I want to know as soon as possible." * Kyon rolls his shoulders contemplatively. "Can fit it in later this week. This Friday." * Haruko giggles at Taki's comment and then looks at Kaede. "Right, let's find out if you're up to it." Back to Taki "Call me when you figure stuff out." * Taki pats the pocket of her backpack where her rechared cellphone is stashed, "Of course." * Kaede goes over to his bike, giving Kyon a curt nod. He doesn't stop to see if he notices or not as he unchains his bike. * Haruko smiles at that then scurries to keep up with Kaede, she gives Kyon a wave as she does so. * Satoshi waves to them as they go. "Later." Seeya! * Katie gives Haruko and Kaede a slight wave as they run off. * Haruko gives an enthusiastic wave back as she waits for Kaede to unchain the bike. "Bye!" * Kyon nods tersely to the people as they go by. "Right. Let you know if the time changes." He stops for a second, then twists the phone closed and sticks it away. He turns to look at Katie sidewise. "Don't have to be that close to listen." I was thinking of pouncing you, but decided that might be too embarrassing for someone as cool as you are. * Katie grins. "Making a date?" (And now Katie and Mimi have switched...I feel like I'm watching the body swaping ep of GA2 again @_@) * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Would have embarassed yourself when you missed." That's what you think. * Kyon smirks. "More than a theory. Don't have the aim." He secures his bag to the bike, then turns and looks around. You've never seen me tackle someone. How do you know? * Katie looks over at Satoshi and Taki, who are likely standing there and watching. * Satoshi actually grins a little back at Katie. * Taki looks a little embaresed. * Katie grins back at Satoshi. "Got anything to add?" * Kyon looks down at her bemusedly. "Seen you move, and seen me move. Should be enough to judge." Just that it'd probably be interesting, no matter what the outcome. Hee, true....Bit of a mess to pick up everybodies egos afterwords though. Right. So, business. * Katie glances back at Kyon. "Haruko and Kaede went off to mind the shop. Arisu didn't come to school today. Eiko might be missing." Yeah. Eiko's missing, apparently, and now so's Arisu. Right after we saw her at the party on Saturday. Probably not a coincidence. And Chikako was looking for you. (Dueling expositions! Go!) (En guarde!) * Katie snickers as the descriptions overlap. (Damn you, Katie. You win this time. ;p) (Bwahaha!) (::gives Katie a point and waits to see if Satoshi will rally::) * Kyon looks back and forth between the two of them, and shrugs quickly. "So, probably at the model's place. And you all want to go charging in?" No, we want to make plans and possibly avoid charging in. That didn't work last time. Besides, it'd help if we knew if they really *are* missing. Right. We're not entirely sure about that. Arisu's absent-minded enough to get distracted, and we're not really sure what's happened to Eiko. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 9. * Kyon nods quickly, and pushes off the bike wordlessly, heading a few steps towards the school before looking back. "Chikako still in there?" Yeah, she went to the paper office. She said she's going to the...what he said. (Ha! I win this time!) (Katie didn't know where she went. ;P) (Next, we have Katie and Taki duel.) (Satoshi 1, Katie 1, Taki 0) * Kyon nods tersely, and heads on into the building. * Taki waves to the departing Arcana. * Katie calls after him, "Nice seeing you, too!" So, anyway. Looks like it's up to us. * Kyon waves back over his shoulder at the group. * Katie rolls her eyes, but she does look faintly amused. Guess so. Haruko recommended talking to Yumi. Or Yuji. Or whichever one that is. It confuses me. (...Satoshi 2, Katie 1, Taki 0) * Taki nods. (Woo! ^_^_v) Any ideas on who to aks about Arisu? Aside from Chikako, no. And we already know she doesn't know. * Taki nods, "I wonder if she found out anything...of course if she had she probibly had all of it on her." Probably shouldn't think about it too hard. Let's go find them, then. Her. Whoever. * Taki nods, "To the arcade?" Think Yumi's at Seiryuu? School, house, or arcade. We have them covered. * Katie starts walking for the subway, idly toying with the zipper on her jacket. Yeah. * Satoshi follows. * Taki sighs and follows Katie to the subway. [Time: 3:45 p.m. You arrive at the YIPEE! arcade. Yay.] (Yipee. ) * Satoshi idly wonders if they have an air-hockey table, then shakes his head and decides to concentrate on the important tasks. * Taki looks around for either of the figures, and checks the photobooth first this time. [Too bad, 'cause there is one.] [Taki opens the door just as the flash goes off, and a random couple inside yells, "Hey!"] (We'll just have to come back when people arn't in Immediate danger) (Aww. ;_; Maybe next time when we're not in such a hurry.) (Satoshi 2, Katie 1, Taki 1? ^_~) Erk! Sorry! I was looking for somebody else. (Yep) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (2d6) and gets 6. * Katie coughs. "Nice going." She starts looking around - not in photobooths. * Taki digs out enough change for another set of pictures and sheepishly hands it over to the couple in the machine. [Random people like free money!] * Satoshi starts scanning the crowd. * Taki closes the machine looks to see if any of the others have people in them and if so waits untill they get out. [Satoshi spots Yuji playing Tekken Tag Tournament against the computer.] * Satoshi taps Taki on the shoulder. "Found him." He then walks over to Katie to tell her the same thing. * Taki nods at Satoshi and follows him to Katie and then Yuji. * Katie nods to Satoshi and grabs his arm before he walks off. "We need to talk later," she half-whispers to him. "No rush, just when convenient." Ah, okay. * Katie glances over her shoulder at Taki and gives a slight smile, then heads to Yuji. It's askin' time! * Taki takes a deep breath. [Yuji is there. I'm not opening another window.] * Taki stands and waits for Yuji to either get killed or beat the game. [Yuji makes it to then final boss and then gets killed.] [He starts a new game!] * Taki facepalms. Maybe you should... never mind. * Satoshi pulls a few coins out of his pocket. "Hey, mind if I join in, or are you trying to finish the game by yourself?" "Go right ahead." And after that, have you got a minute? A couple of my friends and I wanna ask you something. He shrugs. It's about Eiko. * Katie lets Satoshi do his thing. ( Satoshi, gimme a gaming roll ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (2d6) and gets 8. [Yuji plays a pretty horrible game, but he steal beats Satoshi down.] Ahh, man, I'm not very good at this. Haven't really played much. ( at all :P ) Yuji shrugs. "Takes practice." (I could probably beat Satoshi. It'd be sad. ;p) Yeah, well, I guess I'm too busy with hockey practice and all. Anyhow. Mind if I ask you those questions now? (Look at it this way, he could beat all of us at hockey) * Yuji is still playing, but he says, "Go ahead." Well, we're... acquaintances of Remi's, I guess you could say. We've helped her out a couple of times. And she and Eiko were very very close. Remi's really worried about her, because she hasn't seen her in a while. And you know Eiko, right? We were wondering if you've seen her lately. Yuji met us before, Satoshi. Remember? Yeah, but a lot was going on and he could've forgotten. * Taki nods from time to time during this. (In other words, Satoshi sorta forgot himself. ;P) * Katie nods. "Yeah. Not sure how he'd forget us, though. But still, go on." "Haven't talked to her in a while." What about Yumi? Would she have talked to Eiko? ... "My sister? I don't think so." * Satoshi blinks at the mention of a "sister," then shrugs. "Okay. We figured that since they might have seen each other at school and all... well, if there isn't anything else, thanks for your help and I guess we'll get going. Unless you want to kick my butt at this game a few more times." He smiles a little. "It's your money." In that case, we'll see you around. Take care. * Katie rolls her eyes. "Have you seen her at all, Yuji?" "Yeah. I live right next door." Goodb... Right, that's nice. So has she been around over the past few days? "Depends on what you mean by 'around'." ...At all? Why don't you tell me? "I see her, yeah. She doesn't talk to me much anymore." Did you see her over the past few days? Some people are wondering if she's missing. But if she's around, it might just be that she isn't talking to them anymore, like you. Huh. Seems to be a common thing... * Taki nods absentmindedly. "She isn't talking to anyone much anymore. Too busy with her social elite club." The one with Ayako? "I guess. Some rich girl." Who else is involved? * Katie lets out a smirk. "I hear Ayako's a bitch. But Eiko's been around the past few days, right? She didn't vanish. That's good." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6) and gets 4. "Yeah, she's still around. Just too good to talk with us 'commoners'." * Taki nods again. Okay. And she might need a slap across the face. I know you're a guy and all, but Yumi might be the person to do it. Think about that. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6) and gets 9. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6) and gets 11. Yuji doesn't respond. 'Cept by losing. He curses under his breath and starts up another game. * Katie doesn't bother saying bye and starts weaving her way out of the arcade. * Satoshi shakes his head and follows Katie out. * Taki gives Yuji a slight bow, "Good luck on this game." * Taki then goes with the other two. * Katie doesn't bother looking back to see if they're following her. She just goes on to say, "Now we have Kaede check Eiko's attendance records and see if she's been skipping school. At least we know she's alive and probably just being a stupid teenager of her own free will." Sounds fair. If she's just really happy hanging out with Ayako, then there really isn't anything we can do about it. Unless Ayako has some wierd power to make people like her. [Session End]