<> <> ( Were not. We finished that. ) <> (Ooh. Thai.) <> <> <> (Fitzroy orders a Chako Tako!) (...) (Did we actually pick a place to order from?) * Vera rubs her chin thoughtfully. "On second thought... I'm in the mood for a cheesesteak. * Rochelle shrugs. She's still picking cat hair out of the pillow. (Well, Kat had a restaurant she was thinking of.) * Katherine stands to grab the menu for El Rojo Pared de Asia, and stops. "We changin' our mind already?" * Vera shrugs. "Eh, some other time." ( ....Rojo Pared? :P) (In the fine tradition of badly named mix resturants, it is... The Red Wall of Asia) (I think.) ( Well, it would be if it were in the correct order. ^^ ) * Demetreia sits in a corner examining the artifacts casually. (Google thinks I'm right. Nyah.) ( Adjectives go after. ) (Who says the restaurant owner would know what order it goes in?) ( Good point. ) (In Spanish? Ah well. Moving on!) ( Is that five artifacts including my new gun? ) (Unless I've miscounted.) * Katherine shrugs back, and grabs the menu as well, spreading it on the table. "Pretty much anything Asian, and Mexican too." There's already markings on it around Kung Pao Beef and Neau-Ga Pow. <> (Dear sweet jesus.) * Fitzroy gets up to check out the menu. What from this place is good? * Demetreia wanders over to look at it. * Rochelle looks up from her pillow and gets distracted by the 'net. "Anythin's good for me," she comments as she surfs. * Demetreia tilts her head as she looks over the choices, then randomly points to Taco Stir-Fry and Sweet and Sour Duck Chimichanga. "I suppose I shall have these..." * Demetreia catches sight of the cat and peers at it. (I love you guys. I love this food. I love this game.) * Katherine also grabs a pen from somewhere, and marks "Beef with Broccoli Fajitas" for Roch, then puts the pen down. "They do pretty good stuff all around. I like the spicy beef stuff mostly, but s'your call." <> * Demetreia peers at the watermelon-supported cat. ¬_¬ <> *** Todd (Todd@204.73.105.107) has joined #atc2 (...I like to watch. <.< >.>) <> 2d6 * Atom rolls for Rochelle (2d6) and gets 9. (DR1) (success! You notice Todd looking through the window from across the street!) 2d6 * Atom rolls for Rochelle (2d6) and gets 5. * Katherine pulls off her shoulder holster, and sighs with relief, before relieving it of its weapon and tossing it in the front closet. Then she goes to lean on the couch and eye TVNet idly. (*snerk*) ( *snickers* Oh, dear. ) <> ( * Demetreia counters with staring blankly at him. o_o ) (Okay. That's actually a REAL SHOW, isn't it? I'm not imagining that?) hmm.. Write me down for a Mucho Grande Egroll and some Hunan Nachos. (No, it's fake. There was a Knight Rider 2020-something, though.) (The pen's right there, Fitz! You can write... can't you?) * Fitzroy notices the pen "Ah, I got it." ( ....hmm. I think I actually could attempt Hunan Nachos, with the right ingredients......XD ) (Good lord.) (Would you WANT to?) ( Wouldn't be too hard. ) ( The Beef With Broccoli Fajitas would be pretty easy, too. ) ( Well, never hurts to give it a shot at least once. ) (Shut up and order. c_c;) (It sounds like a Dynasty Warriors equippable. "Peacock Urn". "Herbal Remedy". "Hunan Nachos".) * Katherine looks at the show, and chuckles. "I don't get this show. Why do you want your car to talk to you?" ( And then spend the next three days in the bathroom. But it's science, so it's worth it. XD ) ( I did. ) (Vera either isn't ordering, or ... um... something.) Why not? ( 'Cause I know jack about Mexican food :P ) (Rochelle clearly has never read GCI logs.) ( Then pick something Chinese and add cheese to it. ) (What about chinese food? Kat ordered straight Chinese/Thai.) (*shudder*) * Rochelle lounges, leaving it on Knight Rider. Hopefully Echidna won't try to regain control of her pillow. * Vera looks over the menu. "Hmmm.... I'll have General Tso's Taco." ( Well, or beans. That'd work a little better, methinks. ^^ ) Because it would be like a backseat driver, except without the backseat. (....now, that might actually be *good*. XD XD) And I'd like a car like that. It could do the driving while I do the shooting. ( If I manage to survive and am allowed to go to ACen, I shall buy food, cook it, and inflict it upon YOU ALL! ) * Demetreia sneaks up on Echidna. Kind of. <> * Demetreia pokes it. <> ( Well, is there anything else to do? ) * Fitzroy sits back down where he was sitting before and adjusts his mindlink. * Katherine stands up from leaning, walks over to the marked up menu and pulls her cellphone out, dialing the number. Then she orders! ( Let's go after another artifact :P ) <> (You could eat it. With tabasco, if you're sticking with the Southeast Asian Tejano fusion deal.) * Katherine hrms. "Okay, people want to chip in the cash?" All right. * Katherine will... um... collect offered monies, then sit back at the table. "So, what did you actually get from that damn place, anyway? Artifact musta been awfully small." Thought I told you? Got a gun. * Katherine smiles faintly. "Musta missed it. Guess the artifacts aren't all weird. Wonder why it had such a damn long name, though." What was the name? * Katherine frowns. "Oh, god, something absurd about wormholes and ordinance. Like all the others." <> (Okay, I looked it up, but Kat isn't going to remember that. c.c;) ( That actually makes a little sense. ) * Vera shrugs. "No clue then." (Just providing it to remind you.) * Rochelle doesn't divert her attention from the 'net, and doesn't chip in money, either. "Maybe we can give them other names. Bob, Joe, Harry." * Fitzroy could be asked, but he seems 'gone'.. eyes twitching away from mindlink. (Rochelle naming weapons. Somehow, I am deeply amused.) ( 'lo Bob) * Katherine picks up the glass she emptied earlier, and goes to fill it up with wine, saying idly, "It'd make it easier to yell at Eck. 'Get off Joe', rather than 'Get off that piece of junk.'" (Wine and Tejano/Chinese fusion. I hope your innards melt.) I'd rather not have to call a hyper-dimensional watermellon "Joe". Although... That might make a good name for a TVnet program. ( Cham: Oh, dear. ) (One might say she's planning on it.) * Rochelle snickers. Hey, can't be worse than half the junk they show. Like that Octegenarian Wrestling Chihuahuas show. (*dies laughing*) * Katherine takes a sip from her newly filled glass. (...them's some old chihuahuas. c.c;) (At least 25 years old, in fact.) <> (Fastest 20 minutes ever.) * Katherine grabs her purse and buzzes the poor guy in. ( ....it actually has been about 20 minutes. Talk about realism. ^^ ) (A discourteous part of my brain suggests a stopwatch was involved.) 2d6 * Atom rolls for Fitzroy (2d6) and gets 7. 2d6 * Atom rolls for Fitzroy (2d6) and gets 10. 2d6 * Atom rolls for Fitzroy (2d6) and gets 8. ( Well, by my timestamps, still a little off. But really close. ) <> "Food!" (Clearly, a graduate with distinction. His vocabulary is stunning.) ( But he doesn't look Mexican OR Chinese! ;_; ) (Also there was no stopwatch. I just kind of guessed.) * Katherine grabs the bag. "Right, food, I got it." She pulls out her thumb-thing, charges a chip, and hands it to 'im. "Keep it all." "Thanks!" <> <> 2d6-5 * Atom rolls for Fitzroy (2d6-5) and gets -1. * Katherine closes the door, and carries the food over to the table. "He's looking more crazy than normal today." <> * Rochelle watches him go, then shrugs. * Fitzroy smells the food and blinks out of his daze. * Katherine puts all the food down and starts digging through it, pulling out two boxes and a pair of chopsticks, as well as a bunch of other stuff that was in the way. (It could steam coldly. We just have to fill the containers with liquid nitrogen or something.) * Vera grabs her taco and munches. <> <> * Fitzroy grabs his food and says "I was looking at those maps we saw in the basement." * Rochelle peers at the food. "Um... which one's mine?" * Demetreia takes a pair of chopsticks and spears the chimichanga with one of them, trying to spear the stir-fry pieces with the other, and really kind of failing, at least with the rice. I can't tell what they say, but I found another thing on the net with the same characters. * Katherine says, "The beef fajitas, Roch." She starts eating the boxes o'beef. (Whole cows died for this meal.) ( DunnoCows? ) (Well, DunnoCows, yes.) (And Bothans.) * Vera munches on the Taco. "What characters?" They were on the maps on the walls in the basement. * Fitzroy brings up his holo display on his comp to show one of the pictures. * Katherine looks across the room and tries to look at the maps. <> Turns out the thing I found on the net is from 1860's France. Written in the same characters. * Rochelle takes the fajitas, then! And opens them and starts using chopsticks. Hey, however it works. Well, at least it's not ancient China. <> ( In spanish? ) (...Si.) 1860s? ("Sera objetes de poderes mysticos en el segundo cuarto de la biblioteca.") Wasn't that before they had cars? Yeah. It was in a cathedral or something. ( The second room? How many rooms do they usually have? ) (Depends. In Cold Spring, MN, the city hall, police department, fire department, and library are all one building.) (It occupies half a block, including the garage.) ( Reminds me of the Sra Cleo advert for our Spanish video...."En tu futuro....sera....un sandwich....¡de queso! ¡Y jamon! ) ( Whoa. ) <> (...*SNERK* Okay, that made my day, Shar. Thank you.) Any idea how it fits in the big picture yet? ( You're quite welcome. XD ) ("El dos de batons se dice su gato... su gato esta en mucho peligro. Vaya! Vaya!") ( *cracks up* ) ( Y jamon? Y not? ) * Fitzroy shakes his head. "Not really. Anybody know anything about obscure languages?" (¬_o Less Spanish more roleplay.) (Sorry. ^_^;) ( What Todd said. ^^ ) (What about Space Babelfish? It's been 85 years.) * Vera snickers. "That they're probably not spoken much." (Machine Translation is better. You can try it.) * Demetreia shakes her head. "Not I." ( Said the little grey cyborg. ) (*snerk* "Well, according to Red Babelfish, this artifact is at 'Please Show Me The Elbow Of Your Honorable Uncle'.") (....*falls over* ) You kidding? * Fitzroy shrugs * Katherine says around a mouthful of food, "Might ask Ian if you can't do anything else." I tried a few simple letter swapping techniques. That didn't come up with anything. * Rochelle chomps down on a piece of broccoli. Well, I could probably find someone to do it for us if it comes to that. * Fitzroy polishes off his egroll between sentences. I can probably try a few more things. We do know the original characters came from France. That might help. Do we know that the French characters are the originals? * Katherine frowns, but doesn't say anything. Eating. Well, that's all I found. The document was pretty old. 2d6 * Atom rolls for Fitzroy (2d6) and gets 5. 2d6 * Atom rolls for Fitzroy (2d6) and gets 6. Oh. It was a tapestry. * Fitzroy brings up the info on the tapestry. (on holo display) <> I ran another letter scan on the tapestry.. looking for French words, and it matched up better.. with the tapestry. (Fascinating.) Not with the maps. * Katherine finishes off one box and starts in on another. She gives the tapestry a glance. * Rochelle finishes off a fajita and makes a vague noise of 'yeah, I'm listening'. <> So what's this mean? * Demetreia looks it over curiously. ( Hmmm.... The code says "Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A." I wonder what that means? ) Well, It means to me that they don't want this info shared. * Katherine slows down in her eating, and looks at the tapestry a little more closely. "...I have no idea what that is." <> * Demetreia eyes one of them curiously and bites into it. <> (Does the paper taste good, Deme?) * Demetreia gets a weird look on her face and discreetly spits out the paper. "It seems to be a damaged pastry." (*snerk*) * Katherine looks at Deme suspiciously. "It's a fortune." * Demetreia holds it by an edge and peers at the somewhat soggy thing. "Rather a small one...." * Rochelle finishes off her meal, grabs a cookie, and cracks it open. <> (...) <> (I can't believe you didn't see this coming.) (I see nothing coming. It makes everything a surprise.) * Rochelle eyes her fortune and eats cookie. Cooookie. ( o/~ C IS FOR COOKIE ) * Vera takes a cookie. "What do you think the odds are that one of these contains a mission?" * Fitzroy grabs a cookie too. Fortune me! From god? If you believe in that. (Actually one of them contains the Commissioner from Inspector Gadget.) (Woot! Does he self-destruct?) * Katherine snorts. "Then I'd have to punch Anders for ruining my favorite takeout place." ( From a Robed God :P ) <> * Vera reads hers. "Oh. It's a death threat." * Katherine finishes most of her two beef boxes, and cracks the last cookie. A death threat as a fortune? That bodes poorly. <> Yeah. Sorry, Kat, but I might have to go kill everyone in that place. * Katherine eyes her cookie, and frowns. "... That's OK. It's completely justified." She holds up her fortune. ("let it down. Anders don't get you.") (A new folk ballad, Roy?) One word? (Could be) Mine's one word too. 'Down' * Rochelle is looking at her own fortune. Then she glances up to see Kat's. "Oh." ( Down Anders let it, you get? ) (Missing a "don't") ( You don't get? ) ( Er, don't you get? ) ( It's a poem! ) ( Let it down, Anders! Don't get you! ) (Tell me one of you can actually see how those go together. <_<) (Should be, "I'll get you yet Gadget!" *shakes fist*) (Not as far as I know.) ( Down! Don't let it get you Anders! ) ( :D ) ( is not a valid number Demetreia. ( Ah! it's a warning! ) ( From...THE FUTURE! ) (o/~ Don't let me get me... I'm my own worst enemy... ) ( Todd: I was thinking that too. >_< ) (If you're going to puzzle it out do it IC.) * Katherine tosses hers onto the table. "Christ." She takes a drink. "Did you all get crap fortunes too?" * Vera tosses hers onto Kat's. "See for yourself." * Demetreia flicks hers onto the table as well. "My fortune is 'let it'?" (*plays MASH with the fortunes* Katherine and Anders, with Down kids, living in a Let It and driving a Don't.) ( What about Get You? ) (...) (That comes after Mike reads that joke, I suspect.) (*cracks up*) (*cackles*) (Yes. Yes it does.) ( *snickers* ) Perhaps the coffeeshop is still open. * Rochelle places hers on the table. "Don't. Don't let it, I guess." ( Er, mischan thingy. ) (No! Deme really needs coffee! She's running a background Barista process!) ("Sudden urge... to STIR...") * Fitzroy tosses his onto the table. * Katherine frowns. "'Don't let it get you down.' How thoughtful of him. He could have just sent some e-mail." But cookies were probably more fun. * Demetreia eats the rest of her cookie, eyeing it for further defects first. * Katherine tosses her boxes back in the bag. "Yeah, probably." She frowns. "Well, at least no damn orders." <> * Katherine doesn't eat hers. Too much meat. Probably was meant for Ian and Leo. * Rochelle yawns. But then, he'd know they wouldn't get it, so whatever. <> (And nobody is saddened.) * Katherine yawns too. "Ack. And I even got a good night's sleep last night. No yawning.' * Katherine looks down to Eck, who might still be hanging around, because Eck is like that, and then she goes over to fill up her food bowl. <> <> * Rochelle starts flipping channels again. No infomercials. hmm, Maybe Anders is talking _about_ Ian and Leo. How'dya mean? About them leaving? I don't particularly care 'bout that though. (...ouch. ^_^) (They can come and go. He's not attached to them. ;)) (speaking of..) * Katherine snorts. "Guess that's a good point. Wouldn't want us to feel bad because he roped people into doing crap and they got a bit tired of it." She takes a drink. They can come and go if they like. So could anybody else as far as I'm concerned. * Vera nods. "Up to them." Bet Ian will be back, though. Then why are you in on this, Roy? * Katherine sighs and leans forward on the table, but doesn't speak up. * Rochelle thinks about that, then flops on her side, still lazily flipping channels. "They'll both be back." Well, I've got no place better to be, really. And this is kinda interesting, in a way. <> * Katherine chuckles. "No better motivator than boredom." She looks at her claws briefly, then leans on one arm, looking at Roch. "They'll be back, huh? Leo sure didn't seem like he wanted to be here. Why would he come back?" I dunno. But I bet they will be. Anders is gonna keep bugging them until they're back. Or something's gonna make sure they run into us again and get messed up in the whole thing. Sounds like a Deus ex Machina for a cheezy TV show. Sure. Didn'tcha know that 'fate' is just another word for 'plot hole'? Yeah, Anders seemed big on the whole fate twisting thing. Yeah, he does. Pretty weird thing for a kid to believe in. <> (Announcing that Bruce Willis' license has been suspended. Accursed Leeloo!) * Katherine taps a finger on the table. "I mean, already 15 and thinks everything's predetermined. Doesn't sound very exciting." <> (The cat is upstaging you. You should feel deep shame.) Well, everyone has their own ideas, I suppose. * Rochelle eyes the watermelon, but doesn't get up from her sprawled position on the couch. Anyone have something they want to do next? * Katherine finishes off her drink, and stands, tossing the food bag in the trash/incinerator/whatever. "Well, I'm still deciding whether I want to go buy Val her drink tonight, or tomorrow. Beyond that, nah." Not particularly, I suppose. * Vera shrugs. "Nah, not tonight." What about that gun artifact? Do you know how it works Vera? .. You seem to be able to hold it. (FIRE! THE! GUN!) * Fitzroy looks over to the others, "Ian said it got really heavy when he was holding it." * Vera shrugs. "I'm guessing it works like any other gun." (Not in MY apartment you don't.) Except for the changing into other pistols thing. It changes into other pistols? Not since I got it. maybe.. Can I have it for a sec? * Katherine snickers, "That's better than turning blue, eh?" She grins. * Vera shrugs. She pulls out the gun and hands it to Fitz. * Fitzroy takes it and looks at it. <> ... Definitely better than turning blue. ...at least it serves some observable purpose. (She says, but nobody's pulled the trigger yet) * Rochelle eyes the gun. "'Kay, that's freaky." ( Pull the trigger and it becomes a rabbit. ) (NOT IN MY APARTMENT.) (Aww, worried about your deposit?) (I'm worried about my STUFF.) (Worried about nth-dimensional wall integrity, knowing the gun's name.) (4th wall is way gone.) * Katherine nods. "I wish I had one of those. Easier than carrying around two." * Fitzroy hands it back to Vera, "huh, I have one of these.. " <> * Demetreia blinks. "Oh, my." <> ... I think it likes you. * Vera twirls it around on her finger before placing it back in her trenchcoat. "Probably customizes itself to fit its wielder best." * Vera grins at Rochelle. "Well, I like it too." That's good, I guess. * Rochelle yawns again and curls up on her couch. Echidna isn't there, haha. <> * Rochelle has gotten used to it. (All this yawning and curling up makes me sleepy. >_<) (Anyone else have anything pressing they want to do?) (Besides kick everyone out? ^_~) ( Not me ) ( Not me ) (Roch is falling asleep. ;P) <>