<> ( <.< ) <> <> ( What happened to Vwoof?) <> <> * Rochelle pushes the door open and steps in. * Ian stays to the rear of the group, being unarmed and all. * Threnody rests one hand on the hilt of Guren and peers inside, then looks around mentally, just in case. (Well, armed, but not all Exo-ey.) <> * Rochelle doesn't even jump. She looks over that way and says, the speakers of her suit crackling just a little, "Everyone but Kat's gonna want to stay back a sec." <> * Katherine 's suit seems to tense then the suit nods. "Wonderful." Actually, just get out of here for a while. * Threnody takes a step back, blinking. "A trap?" * Fitzroy backs away from the door a bit more. * Ian turns and starts dashing back the way they came. * Threnody looks left and right. "There's nobody around, except us. Well, to the limit of my perception, anyway." I'd say so. Nerve gas. (Might wanna do something about that.) * Katherine follows Roch. Whoosh-whoosh, goes the suit. <> (Give me a sec.) (I think cable's back on.) * Vera retreats away from the lag. I mean, away from the green stuff. (Ha.) * Leopoldo gets away from the freaky green stuff too. (Hooray!) * Fitzroy follows Leo and Vera.. not wanting to get gassed. (Hooray indeed. Kat can spam me again!) (Thank you, screen! I missed nothing. Let us continue.) <> * Rochelle clanks over to wherever the gas came from to have a look. * Katherine looks around in an attempt to get a desc. ~Careful, Roch, there might be more than one bomb.~ <> <> * Rochelle picks it up, looks at it, and rolls her eyes before tossing it back onto the ground. <> (Not even DunnoYuk?) ~I don't think that's something Anders would do.~ ~Well, I'm not worried about Anders. I'm worried about Dorian.~ ~Yeah.~ 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Leopoldo (2d6) and gets 7. 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ian (2d6-4) and gets 7. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Threnody (2d6-2) and gets 2. (Yep.) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fitzroy (2d6-2) and gets 4. (got mine) <> <> * Rochelle walks over to analyze the silver stuff. Mercury? <> 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Vera (2d6-2) and gets 7. <> * Katherine frowns and continues looking around. ~Where did they go?~ She walks over to the bathroom and gives it an idle check, because hell, who knows? ~Ran, I guess. Wanna bet Dorian has Anders?~ <> * Rochelle peers at the cots. That's weird. She looks under them. <> (HAR HAR ahem. I knew I shoulda brought my exo.) (Pfft no.) (*does) (No, so unless my head computer, in a burst of logic, has a translator, no.) (But I'm not down there! Ahahaha.) (But since it NEVER DOES ANYTHING EVER, I doubt it.) (NOPE) <> (Yeah. Good thing it's only half a CP.) ( It's got a translator, but unfortunately it runs through Babelfish. ) * Katherine picks up the note. ~Well, I'm not going to take that bet until we can check this note.~ (You mean Babblefish?) (Is the door _closed_?) * Rochelle looks up. ~Yeah?~ She stands. ("DEAR THEMELESS ONES: ANDERS DO I IN TREE HAVE YOUR ELBOW FISH SQUARE ROOT OF BUTTERFLY NET.") <> ~Yeah. One of those things I never bothered to learn was Earther.~ (There's a bomb under that note!) ~... Thren should know that. And maybe Leo.~ * Rochelle goes to take a look. (A look where?) (At the note!) * Katherine carefully picks the note off the door and hands it to Roch. ~I can finish looking around down here, since it seems they've cleared out, and you can get them to read up?~ (Actually, I'd already picked it up.) <> * Rochelle takes it. ~Sure.~ She looks at it for a moment, then heads out! To show them the note! <> * Katherine looks around a bit more, including picking through loose things on the off chance Anders is playing scavenger hunt. (I go to #InnaForest? ^^) (YIZ) * Katherine search search searches, including looking at a bit of the silver stuff herself anyway. <> <> * Katherine looks at it, and frowns. ~... Wait. Samuel.~ ( It's turning into a sysadmin! Run!! ) (>___>) <> ~Samuel fought here too. The silvery stuff is his. No surprise... but still. No bodies, and nothing hiding in the board games, which in no way would have surprised me. I'm comming up.~ ~Got a translation?~ * Katherine walks over to the Mr. Yuk and suddenly she's pressing one of her arms against her other, and then both of them light up with blue-white thruster fire, heating the Mr. Yuk container to the point of something which is hopefully completely non-dangerous. ~Hooray. Any sterotypical meeting place or demands?~ * Rochelle responds, still above ground, ~Nope.~ * Katherine turns off the arm thrusters and goes above ground! ~Great.~ * Threnody looks around. "He's right about the others. I think we should find them." <> "We've GOT to get him back! We've got to find the others, and then we've got to get him back!" <> I take it there was nobody below ground, then. Okay, we need to find the missing persons. Any clue *where* they are? * Vera is shaken. "Okay! Okay! Jeez!" * Rochelle eyes Luanne. (Aww. Vera seemed like the type to smack her.) (Roch would've!) * Katherine 's speakers crack out. "Luanne? We could start with collecting poor Isaiah from DunnoLand. If we can think of a place to stay that the Concordat won't find us." * Ian nods. * Threnody blinks, then shakes his head vigorously. "No. No, no, no. Got to put that out of my mind." What? (BRB, one sec. Keep going. ^_^) * Threnody sighs and rubs his temples. "Too late. Katherine beat me to the denial." * Katherine 's speakers crack. "Sorry. Shoulda known better, considering mother issues." What *are* you talking about? * Threnody breathes out. "Well, Demetreia is staying with my mother... I suppose if she's amenable that Luanne's friends can recuperate there too. It's certainly secure." * Threnody smiles sheepishly. "It's a good plan, but I haven't spoken to my mother in 4 years, and am slightly nervous asking her for favors." Could send 'em to ATC * Katherine says, "The other option is Si--" she pauses, then says, "ATC. Yes." (How did I get around it before? I let Ronnie do the dirty work. I'm sure she's thrilled.) * Leopoldo mmmms. * Threnody nods, perhaps a little more vigorously than is required. "That might be best." * Rochelle stares into the distance for a moment, then goes to have a seat nearby. <> Well, I can think of a few people that might... Vera, Luanne seems to be very attached to your duster. * Katherine trails off when Luanne falls to the ground. * Fitzroy watches Luanne. "Y'know.. We might want to find them first. If we wait too long, there might not be anyone that needs a safehouse anymore." Well, either way I wanna find Samuel and ask him a few things myself. Soooo.... Let's go do that. (*eyes /msg* I really did just say "oh em gee!" out loud. Cry.) Then let's find them. Where's the mercury-ish trail lead? <> * Vera looks down at Luanne. "Hey, uh... I'm gonna need my coat back." <> * Katherine walks over Luanne-ward and looks down. "I'll... try and calm her down. You guys go. Track him if you can." Roch sees the smirk. (Agh. Impending family emergency. Not immediate though. Sorry, back.) * Rochelle might, but she's staring into the distance. Doesn't even look like she's paying attention to any of you. * Threnody sits himself down on the ground and rubs his temples vigorously, looking headachey. "Maybe... I overdid it a bit. I think I'm going to rest a bit." (In a bit. Peach tea! Trees! "Bats are great!") * Ian nods to Kat. "Will do." * Katherine looks at Vera and Leo and Ian and such, since they seem to have not lost their minds. "Alright then. I can catch up if necessary... damn, I wish I had brought headsets, but..." she trails off, then says, "Go." * Vera tugs her coat free of Luanne. "Right. Right." * Ian nods, and starts following the trail. * Fitzroy nods and heads out, along with Ian. * Katherine snaps her metallic fingers. "Oh! Shoot a laser in the air if you need me. There. That's suitably noticeable." * Vera follows the trail, dragging Luanne behind her if necessary. * Leopoldo nods. "Well, just yell in your headset if you need us." He starts following the trail too. * Katherine idly hopes Luanne is not being dragged off. <> (I stayed too.) (Claimed headache.) (And Roch is around as well.) ( We're following the arrows, the arrows, the arrows!) (... Yes. The mercury jizz-like arrows.) (Thank you, Leo.) <> (Ian left Thren a trout costume. "Wait for me!" *sparkle*) (HA ha ha ahem.) <> ( Damn. Oh well, let's go back ) (So much for that.) (*heads back) <<> * Ian looks at the stream, and over at the other bank. "Do you think Thren could track it?" <> Probably. He's got all that mental stuff goin' on. Never know. * Ian hmms, and peers for traces on the rocks. <> 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Leopoldo (2d6) and gets 3. (Yay! By 3.) ( All of us? ) (Sensory awareness?) 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ian (2d6-4) and gets 4. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Vera (2d6-2) and gets 5. <> * Ian nods. "Looks like we can follow this..." * Vera nods. And does! "Let's go." * Leopoldo nods and follows! * Ian tracks! (Ian is the Squid Ranger!) <> <> ( I've got urban tracking. Does that count? :P ) (I've only got urban.) <> 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Vera (2d6-1) and gets 5. (No tracking here. >_<) (So 2d6-Urban+2, or just 2d6+2?) (Looks like the first.) (The first.) 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ian (2d6+1) and gets 7. (Yes!) <> * Vera heads right. "Clever of him." * Ian follows. "Very." ( Although once the left path wore out, wouldn't people just come back and follow the right one? ) So, uh... You guys got any medpaks, or stuff? (It'd buy him time at least.) I can fix him up if we find him. I did learn something in school, after all. <> 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Vera (2d6-1) and gets 9. ( No >.< ) 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ian (2d6+1) and gets 8. (Just missed.) <> * Vera pulls out a cigarette and smokes. "Well, so much for that." <> ( But not the vanishing bit? ) <> ... Yeah, okay. can you find the trail again? * Ian sighs. "He's good." * Vera backtracks a bit, looking for the trail again. <> 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Vera (2d6-2) and gets 8. ( >.< ) (Eew.) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ian (2d6) and gets 11. (...) (Go get DR.) (We need Drama Points in this game.) ( DR ruins the fun. ) <> * Fitzroy hmms and looks around for himself. * Vera shakes her head. "No idea." * Ian shrugs. "Maybe he's around here." <> 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Leopoldo (2d6) and gets 6. (Yay!) ( So it's actually easier to find if you don't have tracking? >.> ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fitzroy (2d6) and gets 6. (You got more minuses to your rolls.( ( And penalties. ) (I only have 1 level in tracking, which a +2 kind of offsets. ^_^) (It's the same roll for me. *shrug*) (Overall you had a better chance. -1 and -2 for you, -1 and 0 for Ian.) ( I guess. It seems odd to me to give people penalties to offset them so they're equal to people who don't have the skill. ) (Well, it's not the right skill. ^_^) <> (But IIRC it was actually +1 and 0 for Ian. >_>) * Ian blinks. "Well spotted!" * Leopoldo steps on it. "Ya got some right here." Ah, yeah. It keeps going here. * Leopoldo follows the trail! * Fitzroy starts following again. * Ian follows! <> <> (Perception rolls again, bonii apply.) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Leopoldo (2d6) and gets 7. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fitzroy (2d6-2) and gets 1. 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ian (2d6-4) and gets 3. <> * Fitzroy points at the regular blood, "You see that? .. doesn't look good." * Ian nods. "Not good at all." ... Um, do you think he's the one who's helpless or someone else? He might have had someone with him, whose injuries got worse... <> 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fitzroy (2d6-2) and gets 3. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Leopoldo (2d6) and gets 7. <> 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ian (2d6-4) and gets 1. <> * Ian shouts, "Hey! It's us!" * Ian peers into the copse. * Vera offers the copse some tea. Well, no, not really. Hey? You there? <> (*relaxes. Okay, we have a grove of trees that are breathing and bleeding. That's IT, right?) (And a gun in Ian's face.) * Ian freezes. "Um." (Well, now it's pointing a gun at Ian, right.) * Vera draws her own gun. "No ya don't." <> "Is it really you guys?" * Leopoldo yipes. "Ooookay." ("No, it's not. You can shoot the lobster now.") Luanne came and got us. Are you okay? Yeah, it's us. <> "Luanne's okay?" If a little histeric. A little histerical about you, but otherwise fine. <> "Drop the gun, Victor." <> "Normally I'd ask for more proof, but we're pretty well fucked as it is if we don't get some nanopaks or something here quickly." * Ian nods. "Leo?" (Sorry. I left my healer in my other game.) (*holds up Mikoto* "Is this the healer you are looking for?") Yeah, well, normally I wouldn't help people who left me for dead, so I guess it's a special day for both of us. * Vera turns to Leo. "You said you could fix 'em up, right?" (He comes in a number of different flavors and colors!) * Leopoldo nods. He pulls out what looks to be a glorified first-aid kit and gets to work on him. "Yeah, he'll be able to move no problem. And hey, I can always just carry him." (...I just got a mental image of Strawberry Mikoto. Thanks, Todd. @_@) <> "Hi." (Mmm.) ... Oh boy, this might take a bit. * Ian winces. What happened to you guys? I mean, other than the obvious. ( They were sworded ) <> "Dorian happened. He's a brutal fighter, but he was in a hurry." I mean how did he hurt you? "His sword." ( I told you! ) (Ha, point for Vera!) (Which one are you working on?) (Mmm... Victor) <> (Er, +1) So why was he in a hurry? 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Leopoldo (2d6-1) and gets 6. (By 0) <> "He had to catch a flight, he said." Don't suppose he said where. * Leopoldo hmmms as he works on the wounds. "Home base, he said." * Ian hmms. "Hey, Roy! Can you track flights?" <> Okay, that's about all I can do now. You're going to need to go to a hospital, though. * Fitzroy hmms. "Not sure. If it's a registered flight, of course. But, I doubt he's on one of those." * Leopoldo starts work on Samuel. Check 'ports. If he took his own ship, he'd have to have docked it somewhere, right? * Ian nods. "Would Traffic Control know? I'll bet Vernon could find out the details from them, if so." <> ( Well, Ian, you'd know better than the rest of us :P ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Leopoldo (2d6-2) and gets 7. (... Screw you Dicesuke.) <> "I'll be fine. Where's Luanne?" Back with the others. Yeah... We should get back anyways, now that we found you. "Which way?" <> There's got to be some place you can recover. Wait a sec, if Dorian was in such a hurry, how'd he have time to write that note? Not to mention the nerve gas. That does pose a dilema. Huh... * Leopoldo starts leading them back to the rest of the group. <> * Threnody takes a few deep breaths. "They're coming. Samuel and Victor are with them." * Rochelle is eyeing Kat, but she breaks that off to look to Thren. "Okay." * Katherine 's ears twitch, and she starts pacing. <> * Rochelle sighs. * Ian checks to see if he can get telecom reception out here. * Katherine eyes Luanne and smiles sligtly. Her helmet is off, she's holding it under her arm. <> Victor? About how long ago did Dorian leave? * Fitzroy didn't come up with any good ideas on ship tracking on the way back, by the way. <> * Ian asks Samuel, then. <> "Several hours. I don't know how he got from here to the airport." * Katherine smiles a little less pleasantly. * Ian nods. "Thanks." And dashes off a message to ATC Technical Support, Tier Ten. * Threnody suddenly slumps into the grass and lies on his back, looking at the trees. "Ay, my head. We need subvocal communicators and some surveillance gear," he says tiredly. Why do you need that? (BECAUSE OW MY BRANE you stupid lizard. ) * Katherine grins. "I already have subvocal. Love that stuff." <> * Ian picks up. "Hello?" * Katherine then says, "So, what all happened? Besides finding them?" She eyes Victor a little more carefully. We found a neat newt. * Ian laughs. "Hi, Ronnie. I take it you got my message?" A newt? Really? Yep * Threnody turns his head to Leo a little. "Because lately I'm finding mental multitasking to be a little trying." Ah. (It's amazing how many Enzos you can find if only you look. "Well, there were some people that died...and oooh! There was a thing, it was shiny.") "Many thanks. One other question - it looks like the person we're after caught a flight within the past four hours. Any chance that traffic control might have a record of it?" (The thing? The thing that was shiny? I think I saw it once!) (>_>) "It's Dorian, formerly of Anders' group. He apparently has Anders with him." (Hee.) * Threnody suddenly blinks. "Oh, right. That explanation I owed her." He smiles. "I'm counting on you, Ian!" (Explanation?) * Katherine looks between Thren and Ian. "Huh?" (Last session. About why Deme and co. had to go to his mother's.) * Vera ... smokes. * Rochelle ... doesn't. Hey, Samuel. Description of Dorian right now? (Unfortunately, Vera has used up her last Lung Point and immediately dies.) "Getting one. To quickly explain things, it seems Dorian is Concordat, and double-crossed Anders' group. He's hunting the rest of them down, and has Anders as a hostage." ( Nah, these are the non-nicotine brand cigarettes. ) <> "Yup. It's been a bad day or two. Here we go..." * Ian repeats the desc for Ronnie. * Katherine starts pacing a little again. * Rochelle gets distracted by the trees again. Bad month, more like. * Rochelle snickers. (*prods Cham* TC?) * Katherine frowns, and says with a tinge of sarcasm. "Hey, it can't get much worse, right?" Not if I can help it. "Thanks, Ronnie. I owe you one." Medevac is on the way here, and Dorian is on his way to Red French Lick, outside Twilight City. * Threnody melds with the grass. He is now a dryad and can never again leave Earth. (Yay! More smut for DP!) (Well, that was sudden.) (>_>) * Rochelle looks up from whatever she was looking at. "Okay." * Threnody winces. "I just knew it would be some place like that." * Katherine mutters, "Yeah, it got worse already." * Ian nods. * Vera shrugs. <> <> * Katherine thumbs at the transport. "So, Luanne, are you going with them or not? Because if you are, we've got a trek to make." <> "You need me to get back quickly." <> "Ready?" <> * Rochelle nods. * Ian nods, and starts forming the line. "Thanks, Luanne." * Threnody gets up, though he looks reluctant to leave the comfy, comfy grass. Dryad! "Ready." * Leopoldo nods. Yeah. <> <>