<> <> <> ( *stuffs Roch into Leo's beartrap* ) * Demetreia leans outside the building. Staring. Blankly. (I have a beartrap?) ( Yes. I put you in one. And then when I lemoned it Brett came. ) * Katherine frowns at Deme. She looks cross. "What the hell..." ( With extra bear. ) 2d6 * Atom rolls for Vera (2d6) and gets 4. <> * ChanServ sets mode: +o Yu-Mei d6+6 * Atom rolls for Vera (d6+6) and gets 10. d6+4 * Atom rolls for Fitzroy (d6+4) and gets 9. * Demetreia jolts upright to a full tensed position, looking about wildly and backing away from the wall. * Katherine eyes the brick, and eyes Deme. "Jesus christ, girl, what was with the blanking out?" ( Er. Moving away from it. Technically. ) d6+6 * Atom rolls for Ian (d6+6) and gets 11. <> * Demetreia moves her mouth a bit, but without sound. ( Invisible DEMON swallows... ) (Invisible Demon DUNNOswallows.) d6+6 * Atom rolls for Leopoldo (d6+6) and gets 12. * Demetreia then snaps out of it and loosens up. She cracks her neck a few times, takes a deep breath, and blinks at Kat three times. "I apologize. What was that?" ( Scary scary. x.x ) * Katherine frowns. "That was you blanking out and staring into space for a while, before getting hit over the head with a falling brick." Ah. * Demetreia looks up at the building, brushing brick pieces (if there are any) out of her hair. "Odd, the building seems structurally stable." ( Hey Cham. How long's it been since I've been out? Considering that I did so a little after Roy left. ) * Katherine shrugs. "Maybe it was a sign to get less creepy." She eyes the building, and then blinks once. * Demetreia blinks and looks around. "Has Rochelle gone inside to join the others?" * Katherine shakes her head. "She felt lousy and took the subway back home. I'd call to check if she made it back, but I don't think she'd be conscious anyways." She eyes up the building, and mutters, "What the hell is taking so long?" Perhaps they have been discovered. Yeah, maybe, but if that's the case, we're so damn screwed. * Demetreia tilts her head to the side, seeming abstracted for a moment, then straightens up, nodding. "'Damn screwed.' Indeed." 2d6-4 * Atom rolls for Vera (2d6-4) and gets 5. * Katherine looks suspiciously at Deme, then shakes her head. 2d6-2 * Atom rolls for Vera (2d6-2) and gets 7. * Zegon is now known as Leopoldo * Katherine looks about again idly, making sure nobody is there, before saying, "I guess you wouldn't much like it if I broke in again, would you?" ...what for? Just a thought. To speak truthfully, I am somewhat worried about the rest of the group; however, I would much prefer a legitimate method of entering the premises. Or at least pressing need. Yeah, right. In case you weren't aware, it's never legitimate to go where you're not supposed to in a private building. * Demetreia looks down. "The term 'breaking in' has such a forceful nature to it...it implies violence." <> * Roberto waltzes along, twirling his big obvious key as previously mentioned. His whistling needs to be retuned. * Demetreia glances at Kat. * Katherine says, "So, what, should I call it infiltration? That's too long." She apparently sees the man. * Roberto keeps right on for the door, and shows no sign of stopping on his own. Not even to pet a stray animal. <> * Roberto is sad; he wanted to pet a stray kitty. This doesn't divert him from going for the door, however. * Katherine eyes the man some more, and mutters, "Fuck it." She hands Deme her datapd."Deme? Run over there and ask that man his name. When he says his name, say you found Fred Maser's pad, and was looking for him, and move on." ...er....all right. * Demetreia takes the pad and strides over to the man. * Roberto gets to the door, and unlocks it with his big obvious easy-to-grab key. * Katherine starts walking along as well, a bit behind Deme. Excuse me, sir! Eh? May I inquire as to your name? * Roberto turns and looks at Demetreia. And looks. And then says "Hm? Oh, Roberto Roberts. Pleased to meet you, ms....?" ...Nikodemos! Deianeira. Er, Deianeira Nikodemos. 2d6-6 * Atom rolls for Fitzroy (2d6-6) and gets 0. My apologies for disturbing you, sir; I happened across a misplaced pad of a Fred Maser, and was looking for him. ( He should have been Robert Roberto. Then we could call him Mr. Roberto. ) Please have a pleasant day, Mr. Roberts. Once more, my apologies. * Demetreia wanders off casual-quickly. My, what a musical na-- eh? Oh, of course. Erm, you too, Dei, Dai... er, miss. (Domo arigato, Mr. Roberto o/~) 2d6-4 * Atom rolls for Fitzroy (2d6-4) and gets 4. * Roberto sighs, mutters to himself, and opens the door. * Demetreia disappears into the nearest alleyway/nook/cranny she can find. * Katherine , having been in hearing range, stands there until-aha! She dashes in, draws her pistol, and goes for a good old-fashioned cold-cock. 2d6-4 * Atom rolls for Fitzroy (2d6-4) and gets 3. * Roberto doesn't see it coming. He's still trying to figure out that name, see. ( Hurrah for difficult names! ) 2d6-5 * Atom rolls for Fitzroy (2d6-5) and gets 6. * Demetreia doesn't see what Kat does as she's busy either walking towards an alleyway/nook/cranny or entering one. 2d6-3 * Atom rolls for Fitzroy (2d6-3) and gets -1. 2d6-5 * Atom rolls for Fitzroy (2d6-5) and gets 3. * Katherine pulls the key from the doorhandle, and looks about for Deme. As she's dissapeared, Kat curses, "Fuck," and goes into the building, taking the key with her. * Roberto is knocked out promptly, and ceases to worry over the pretty name as he falls over unconscious. (AFTER he falls over, she does that.) * Demetreia waits ten counts, then peeks around the corner to see if Kat is still there. * Katherine is gone, leaving a poor hurt man on the step. Aww. ( He's on the step still, not inside? ) (...) * Roberto sure is. (You are not Chako's child.) (Imposter!) (Yes, he's on the step. I'm inside.) (As opposed to the other way around.) ( Curses. Whyn'tcha just drag him in with you? ;-;) (Because I was thinking on the fly! Shaddup!) ( Heh.) * Demetreia notices Roberto and wanders over, hoping he's unconscious enough not to make a pass at her. * Roberto fails to tell Deme how pretty her eyes are. * Katherine goes up the elevator, and contacts her pad, with her cellphone, on the way up. * Demetreia lifts him up by the collar, checking for inju--- Deme? Deme are you paying attention to this goddamn thing at all? * Demetreia hears the pad and nearly drops him in surprise. Actually, she does, but catches him again just before he hits the ground. "Er, yes?" Good. I'll buzz you in once I hit the apartment. Is the guy bleeding? Umm.... ( Is he? ) <> Not that I can see. Did you really have to hit him? * Katherine thinks for a second, then says, "Yes. Go get that brick that hit your head, put it by his. Then wait for the buzz." She steps out of the elevator, and goes to 7001. * Katherine also hangs up. ...oh. All ri--oh. * Katherine mutters, "Jesus fuck, I hate this thinking on my feet shit." (Kat much prefers planned murder!) (Damn straight!) * Demetreia carefully places Roberts neatly on the ground next to the brick, hands folded across his chest. (... you just ruined the illusion. Good jorb!) * Demetreia looks down at her handiwork. "I hope this is correct..." (Oh wow, Deme's funny. ^^) ( ^-^_v! ) * Katherine goes into 7001, and, assuming she's not surrounded by troops or nothing, 1) buzzes Deme in 2) Looks for people. ...something looks wrong. <<7001 is empty.>> ... Where the hell are they? * Demetreia takes one of Roberts' arms and places it above his head, bending the fingers into a "V for victory" shape. "There. Just like in the holoads." * Demetreia hears the buzz and trots over and in. (...) (Kat will have to remember to specify in detail in the future. >.>) (In the meantime, though, awesome.) ( Yup. ) ( Heee. Thanks! ^-^_V ) * Demetreia goes up! To the apartment! Which is apparently empty. * Demetreia looks around and at Kat. "Where is everyone?" <> * Katherine is looking around for everyone. "I don't know! Maybe the artifact made them dissapear or something. Help me find them." Er, I will try. * Demetreia looks for signs of, um, anything. ( Including sleeping-gas pizzas) <> * Katherine eyes the obviously well hidden hole. "How the hell do you get a hole in an apartment?" She peers into it. * Demetreia pokes at the hole. "Interesting. I have not encountered this particular architectural feature." Is it a new style of furnishing? <> No, it's a hole in the floor. In an apartment building. * Demetreia tilts her head at it. "Oh. I thought that was what it was. But then I thought it might be something artistic. I have never proved proficient in the arts." What is it doing here? ( *barely resists the impulse to add "Did it get lost?" to that* ) I have no damn clue. (Is it tasty?) (Well, considering what passes for art these days...) ( And yeah, is it tasty? ) ( Exactly. ) * Katherine mutters, "Well, at least Roberto won't be able to get in without calling the cops. I can't decide whether that's good or bad." * Katherine looks around for something _besides_ a bottomless pit. Like an artifact. Or something else. <> * Demetreia wonders if the pit *is* the artifact. WoOOooooOoOoOooO, mys-teeer-ious. ( It's a portable hole ) (Woot, like in Yellow Sumbarine!) * Katherine frowns. "Damn. No artifacts. Just the hole." She hrms. "Hey, Deme." She thumbs towards the TVNet computer. "Wanna see if he's got any interesting data on that thing while we wait for the cops to show up?" She smirks at that. 2d6-2 * Atom rolls for Leopoldo (2d6-2) and gets 5. * Demetreia looks uncomfortable. I've never been arrested before.... Well, I'm not looking forward to it myself, so we'll see if we can get at least something out of this place before we have to leave. * Demetreia bites her lip. "Why don't we just leave now?" * Katherine frowns. "Maybe." She looks around. "Well, I guess they weren't captured, so it's probably safe to call." She pulls out the cellphone, blinks a few times, and hits Leo's number. 2d6 * Atom rolls for Vera (2d6) and gets 7. <> * Katherine says, "Yo? Leo?" 2d6-1 * Atom rolls for Rochelle (2d6-1) and gets 6. * Katherine frowns, and says, "Yes. Where the hell are you?" Did they go down the hole? * Katherine deadpans, "Sounds like a blast. Roberto almost came up and found the apartment and the hole in the ground, but we knocked him out, stole his keys, and are in the apartment ourselves. So you've got until he fails to find his keys, contaccts the super who won't be able to get in, and calls the cops." She covers the mouthpiece and says, "Well, they said they were underground, so probably, although I still ain't jumping." Oh. I see. * Demetreia wanders over to the window as Kat talks, and looks for signs of police. <> * Katherine says with a thin smile on her face, "Keep it up, I guess. We'll try our best to set up a stalling plan." * Demetreia backs up a little on catching sight of Roberts. (Is he conscious? ) <> * Katherine chuckles. "Yeah, but the killer is that we have both keys, so someone's going to have to break in once Roberto can't find his, so... yeah, cops. " * Demetreia peeks closer to the window again, continuing to watch but keeping a distance far enough to be able to withdraw before he sees her if he wakes up. (You're 70 stories up. c.c;) ( Shhhh. ) * Katherine shakes her head. "Possibly, but then we'll get the cops anyway. Doesn't matter. Just hurry it the hell up." * Katherine says dully, "Yeah? Sounds great. Unless you plan on getting us down there, keep it relevant. We'd better get started on a stalling plan." * Katherine nods. "On it. Kat out." * Katherine then turns off the phone. * Katherine walks over to Deme. "We got a new fun plan." A plan? Yeah. We get to think of a way to delay the guy more. Is he still out down there? Yes... Did he see you? * Katherine grins faintly. "No." ...perhaps you could talk to him. Attempt to convince him to purchase something from you. I have heard that that often delays people. Or we could take him to the nearest medical center. * Katherine hrms. "Not a bad idea." She hands Deme the keys. "You even get to continue your good little girl act too." But what about you? * Katherine suddenly gets a grin. "I'll be your big step-sister." All right then... * Demetreia wanders on down, waiting for Kat to follow. What is the protocol for little step-sisters? I have never been one before. * Katherine nods, and goes back down too. "Okay. I need a new name. How about Lucy Nikodemos--" she stops. "Just... call me by Lucy, or by sister. Otherwise, it's a lot like being a friend." Ohh...all right. * Katherine hrms. "And we share a parent. Father. That about covers it." The elevator hits the bottom floor, and she steps out. Er...all right. * Demetreia follows. * Katherine goes to the front door and opens it while looking to see if the man is still KOed or not. Z. ( AUGH!! He's in Zodiak! Quick Kat, we gotta run! ) * Katherine nods, and steps out the door. "Alright." She pauses for a second, looking suspiciously at his truly odd knocked out position. * Demetreia tentatively steps out. <> ... Deia, you need to work on your real world experience. * Demetreia blinks innocently at Kat. "Is something wrong?" A little. * Katherine clears her throat. "Alright." She pulls out the telephone. "Time to make this good." She dials... uh... Space 911 * Katherine also makes sure the door is closed. Oh. My apologies. (Dunno911!) ( Dun911, wouldn't it be? ) <> (Well, then, that's what she dials!) <> "911, please state the nature of the emergency." * Katherine says in a tentative voice. "Um... hello? Yes... um, there's this man, collapsed in front of an apartment building. My sister and I ran into him, and... um... he's collapsed? There's a brick near him..." * Katherine continues rambling, "He looks sorta like someone pulled a prank on him, but the breathing's kinda shallow, so I thought maybe, since he's old and stuff..." "There's already a medical unit on the way. Stay on the line." <> * Katherine stays on the line. "Thank god for technology." <> * Ian walks down the steps. "And off we go!" * Katherine nods, and cuts the line. "Let's make it fast. Deme, drop the keys near him, and let's move." * Vera nods. "Let's go." She adjusts her hat. * Demetreia blinks at the others, then blinks at Kat. "Er, all right." Where's Roch? * Demetreia places the key neatly on his chest and turns back to the rest of the group. * Katherine starts walking. "She felt bad and went back to my place, or so she said." Oh * Fitzroy looks around. "I've gotta make sure the cameras out here don't remember anything.. It's down the street" * Demetreia nods. "Right. I will hold you up again." * Katherine frowns. "Try to make that quick too. Did you find anything?" * Leopoldo steps outside. His scales have since changed back to peachish brown. "Let's get going." Er. Medical personnel is on the way. Perhaps we should make haste. That's ok, I can get to the node down the street. Good idea. Okay. Oh. all right then. You can come if you want though.. or I can meet everyone somewhere else. (I can't feely-cooly my brain. ;-;) ( Can you furry-curry it? ) (no.) <> * Fitzroy heads off down the street and gets there soon! <> * Demetreia follows Fitz! Roy! Whatever. So's he can get up there. * Katherine says, once they get there, "Well, I'm not sticking around. I've gotta go check to see if Roch made it back with my damn keys." 2d6-4 * Atom rolls for Fitzroy (2d6-4) and gets 2. (what is this node-thing?) * Ian follows, too. * Leopoldo follows! I think? Yeah. <> * Katherine pauses for a second, then follows through on her statement, by continuing to walk down towards the subway. The farther she gets away, the faster she starts going. * Fitzroy accesses! .. and makes sure the cameras never saw us. <> 2d6-4 * Atom rolls for Fitzroy (2d6-4) and gets 1. ( Bathroom. Be right back. ) Guess that's it, then. <> <> (I need to go pack. @_@) <> (Something is right.) * Katherine is back at the apartment! Hooray. She immediately delves into the fridge for a drink, after looking to make sure Roch isn't dead or wasting away or a zombie. (Nah, I'm here. :P) * Rochelle isn't. She's sitting on the couch, looking more or less okay (certainly better than when she left for the apartment) and eyeing Echidna, who's taken up residence on her pillow. <> * Demetreia is there, yes yes. Aaand...there. * Vera is here! She takes up her post as wall-leaner. * Fitzroy has a seat. (A random extra-dimensional being slaps a "HELLO MY NAME IS "Gideon" sticker on Vera.) ( Eeeek. ) * Vera is way cooler than Gideon. He doesn't have a hat. * Katherine pours herself a drink of wine, and sets the bottle down on the table. "Well, that went pretty damn well for being so hastily planned." * Leopoldo takes a garbage can and starts picking parts of chair off of his clothing/out of his scales. "Now what do you want to do?" I am still somewhat confused. What happened while you were all in there? * Rochelle looks up from her staredown with the cat. "You got it without him knowing who we are an' all?" * Vera shrugs. "Doesn't take much, usually." Yeah, we got it. * Ian collapses onto a couch with something alcoholic. "Oh, we just got shot at by a huge fucking military turret, nothing to threaten to disembowel Anders about or anything." Sooner or later they're going to get the idea that someone else is going after these things, though. (Hey! I didn't say you could get drunk today!) (No? I did. :P) ( Kids, kids. You can both get drunk. ) Yes, well, we should bring it up with him. I'm not doing that again. ...oh, my. * Katherine shakes her head sadly. "You're just... " and she lets the thought trail off, taking another sip. "Well, that's good, anyway. And no, he didn't see anyone but Deme, not that he'd think Deme was involved." Yes. It should definitely come up in conversation. * Vera nods. * Rochelle shakes her head. "I think they do know someone else is after 'em. They just don't know who." More hassle than expected, that's for sure. I'm just saying sooner or later one of these will be an ambush. * Katherine looks at Ian and Leo with a frown, and puts her head in her hands. ...it makes sense... (It's a fantastic parlor trick.) * Leopoldo sits down on a very solid chair after he's sure he's picked all the junk off his person. He glances at Kat. "What, you think I'm looking forward to getting pasted by an automated turret?" ( "Ladies and gentlemen, may I have an artifact, please? Anyone? Anyone? Ah, thank you good sir...now prepare to be dazzled as I make this artifact...disappear! Yes, look, it is gone! Er, where did it go? Um, if I could just direct everyone to turn around and cover their eyes for a quick moment while I dash out this door suspiciously named "exit"..." ) * Katherine looks up. "No, I'm trying to figure out what the hell you people expected?" She glances at Vera. "Well, maybe not all of you." Didn't expect a secret underground base with turrets, no. * Rochelle doesn't look particularly amazed by the whole turret thing. Though she does say, "Little crazy to have that there. Most shouldn't, I hope." I expected to be possibly arrested, imprisoned, roughed up, or all of the above. I didn't expect to get cheerfully shot at by a piece of military equipment. * Demetreia looks a little confused. "What was it doing there?" ( "Did it get lost?" *coughnotagain*) (Is it tasty!) That's something I'd like to know. ( "Did it get lost while being tasty, if tasty is what it is?" ) * Katherine snorts. "Yeah, well. There's a reason I got drunk that first day. Look at the damn interested parties, and if Anders is right, the stakes. ATC, Anders, this secret Concordat. Christ, it's not just a treasure hunt, or even a normal stealing job." She downs the rest of her wine. (Is tasty even a temporary state? Don't most things remain tasty, assuming they don't rot?) (Well, pizza doesn't really stay tasty after it gets cold.) (It stays edible.) * Vera shrugs. "So back out. Not like anyone's forcing you to do it." (Some people like cold pizza.) ( Anyway, we never knew if it was tasty in the first place or not. ) ( The pizza was more dangerous than the turret :P ) (Heh.) * Leopoldo nods. "I think I will. I may have expected some danger, but that was beyond anything I could have thought up." ( Say, whatever did happen to the pizza anyway? ) (Read the logs.) (Mew.) * Ian nods. "Exactly." Don't think any of us are forcing each other to do somethin'. Go ahead. * Fitzroy waves his hand somewhat dismissively, "We just have to be a little more careful, is all." * Leopoldo nods. "You have a shuttle, right Ian? Mind taking me up to my craft so I don't have to use the public transport?" * Katherine leans back, with a chuckle. "I'm just waiting for the stormtroopers, from ATC or the Concordat. Just can't believe that ya got into this and thought it'd be easy." * Ian nods. "Not at all, Leo." I'm...going to have to think about this, myself. * Demetreia looks down. "I don't have anywhere else to go..." * Vera shrugs. "Never figured it'd be a walk in the park. But I'll stick to it for my own reasons. And besides," She grins. "I'd probably have to give back this nifty gun if I quit." * Katherine pours herself another drink. "Well, I sure as hell ain't quitting." * Rochelle yawns a little, reaching over to pet Echidna. She doesn't comment. * Leopoldo nods, then turns to Kat. "I wasn't expecting easy. On the other hand, I wasn't expecting a wall of automated machine guns. This is way out of my league, so I'm just going to let you, who know what you're doing, handle it." * Vera chuckles at that. "Never said that, either." You got a better idea than I do. * Katherine takes a sip. "Guess everyone has messed up expectations their first time out." I'll stick around too. I seem to be of help, and I don't have anywhere I need to be. * Ian nods. "I...may well be back. But I'm going to have to think about it." * Katherine grins. "And Roch'll stay around because I'm giving her heat and water. Ain't nothin' like heat and water." * Vera nods to Ian. Don't expect me to be back. I have people who care about me, and I have a responsability to stay alive for them. * Vera nods to Leo. "Can't say I blame you." * Ian nods. (All I'll say is... I've been waiting for one of you to try this. ^_______^) Well, I'll be leaving whenever you have the time to spare, Ian. (<.<) (^________________^) * Katherine glances over to Leo, then takes a sip, and pats her lap. "C'mere, Eck." * Ian shrugs. "Any time - I don't have much going on right now." (I'm amazed we went so long without trying it. ;P) Then let's get going. <>. "Mroaiw." <> * Rochelle looks up from the cat and blinks at... well... Kat. "Yeah. Heat 'n' water." She gives a slight grin. "Hard to ignore stuff like that." * Leopoldo bows to everyone. "It was nice meeting you. Maybe we shall again, but on considerably less dangerous terms." * Vera tips her hat to Leo. "See ya around, kid." * Katherine waves idly at Leo, then looks around. "Since Ian's gotta think on stuff, y'all wanna give it a day off?" Come back Monday, one way or the other? * Demetreia nods politely to Leo. "It was pleasant making your acquaintance as well." Couldn't hurt. * Fitzroy waves * Ian stands up, and waves. "Sure, I'll do that." * Leopoldo opens the door, waiting for Ian to walk through. "Lead the way. Not sure where you parked it." ^^; * Katherine nods. "Alright. Catch ya later, then." She pets Eck, when she gets to her lap. "Poor cat." * Ian heads out! <> * Leopoldo follows! * Rochelle waves as they leave, picking up the pillow. She starts plucking cat hair from it. (And now I shall go pack. @_@ Just idle, though, since I need to talk to Ard. ^_^) * Katherine hrms. "Well, the rest of you want to plunk in for takeout, or ya got places to go?" Well, delivery. Whatever. I ain't movin'. Hmmmm... Chinese would be good. Like I'm goin' anywhere. (I'ma call it ifn't you don'tmind.) Sure, I could go for that. * Katherine snickers. "Deme?" I have nowhere... ( K ) (Sure.) (... Man, look at the people we have assembled. We'll never get a mini together with this crowd. @_@) <>