<> <> <> <<(Go!)>> * Demetreia is also twitching less. Not that that's saying much. * Rochelle is curled up on the couch! Yaycouch. * Threnody is curled up on the Roch. Alright, not really. Likely closer to the other way around. * Vera looks down at Ian. "He did it again, didn't he?" * Leopoldo is a bishi badass, to everyone but you. To you he's just a lizardboy who's a poser. But that's okay. He's sitting on one of the chairs. "Looks like it." <> * Katherine rubs her face. "I'd kick him, but I'm worried my feet would explode on contact. Which they just might." * Demetreia looks up at everyone. "I poked him some time ago...?" * Katherine 's hair swishes around angrily and somewhat unsafely. * Threnody appears to be meditating. Shaft has converted to Buddhism. (And AFK a sec.) * Katherine mutters to herself and checks her 'pockets', "Doesn't this woman own anything?" Perhaps she spent all of her possessions on her hair? That is some nice hair. * Fitzroy watches the end of the show from his chair over by the twitchy Ian. * Vera chuckles at that. "Salon prices are steep, y'know." <> It probably did cost a couple fortunes. (I have actually escaped from the 'claves below the surface. My D-ratio cannot be charted. Hahaha ahem.) (*gets 'supporting me'. Wheee!) < * Katherine says quietly, "Along with the nanite plant." * Vera turns her attention to the interesting commercial. True, true. <> * Threnody turns and looks down at Roch for a minute, and then appears to pantomime a giggle. * Demetreia blinks at the intimidating commercial. Its Wang-Fu is more powerful than hers. <> * Katherine seems otherwise distracted. At least her hair's settled down. * Rochelle watches passively. Rochcat. <> (Could you get over the hair already? For the past three sessions I don't think you've had a single post that doesn't involve your hair. ¬_¬) (*snickers*) (Hair today, gone tomorrow.) (*runs*) Hey, cool, they have a miracle cure, too. (They don't call her RazorKat for nuthin') ( Let's not split hairs about this. ) (These puns are getting hairy.) * Threnody suddenly swivels his gaze rather alarmingly to Leo and Deme in turn. * Demetreia starts and blinks back at Thren. Twice. (#) * Leopoldo raises an eyebrow. "What?" (...I can't tell you!) (I know. That's why it's so great. ^_^) (Leo proceeds to constantly ask Thren questions.) * Threnody sighs, then grimaces and turns away. * Vera stretches. * Katherine looks over at the alarmed exchange just as it ends, frowns, then says, "Roy? Do you have anything more on what the hell we've done for this INU?" * Fitzroy looks over at Thren. * Fitzroy looks back to Kat. "I didn't see any records or anything yet." * Threnody watches the TV carefully, avoiding meeting anyone's gaze. * Leopoldo walks over and gets some paper and a writing utensil, handing it to Threnody. He smiles. "This might make it a little easier for you?" There's a lot of information there. * Threnody glances at Leo distractedly, then nods. He picks up a sharpie-type marker, chews on the cap a moment, then writes "ZeRoCanx IS SUSPICIOUS" in big block letters in Earthese (if there's a difference in written language) * Katherine chews her lip for a second, then says, "There's got to be some way to cut through it. At least until something comes in from these people. History, other places, something. If they're going to make us work for them, we need whatever the other uses had to do it." (Are they different written languages? @_@) * Leopoldo reads it, not caring if there's a difference or not. "Oh, I thought so too." (Not appreciably.) (then I just have excellent penmanship. ;) (I am somehow unsurprised. ^_^;) * Katherine looks over at Leo and Thren. "What?" * Threnody holds up the paper in front of him. * Demetreia turns and blinks more. * Katherine 's eyes glaze over for a second, then she says, "Well, they need a better graphic design department, and it's pretty impressive tech. What's the other side?" ( *also curses stupid scroll deciding to randomly not, y'know, *scroll*. ) We've got a suspicious company selling goods that probably have serious side effects at extremely exorbant prices. ZeRoCanx. * Threnody nods, takes the paper back, and scribbles in "WE SHOULD INVESTIGATE" on the rest of the available space. (Does he know how to use lower-case? ^^;) (He's trying to make a point.) (Since if we have another chapter of Waiting for CyberGodot I am going to lose it and kill one of you.) Fine fine. Roy, can you figure out where their HQ is, or any information you can get on them? I do not understand. Why is this company more suspicious than other immoral companies? hmm.. Kat, it looks like we've done a lot of general espionage and sabotage.. some robberies.. some corporate murders.. * Fitzroy nods "I can look into it, Leo." * Katherine looks at Leo with a frown, then turns to Roy and nods slightly. "That room isn't built for two, is i--oh! That reminds me. Roy, c'mere a second." * Katherine walks off down the only hallway in the apartment. * Fitzroy heads over to Kat, "Which reminds me, we should fill in the others about what each of us does" He follows Kat away. <> * Katherine leads Roy to the closet with the SEKRIT LOCK on it, and points it out to him. "If... uh, here is anything like Red Sweden, this is yours." The place does have your decorating touch. (It's a retinal lock, or something.) * Fitzroy grins, "Yeah. It does, doesn't it." (Sadly, Deme's question goes unanswered.) (sadly, nobody is talking. ) (I'm out of paper and I have no LARYNX.) (You could, um... GET MORE.) * Fitzroy takes a closer look at the lock thing. (It's retinal?) (Unlike PotatoCat!) ( She was making an effort, too. ;-; ) It's... It promises too much. The front looks too good too be true, which means it most likely is. <> And the huge price tag doesn't hurt. With the market audience of this program, almost nobody watching could afford it. Meaning they have more money than they know what to do with. * Threnody nods emphatically. ...then why show the--ohhh. * Fitzroy tries to unlock it with both hand and eye! See? Suspicious. * Threnody drums his finger on the arm of the couch a moment, gets up, and starts rumming the !kitchen for more paper. <> * Katherine stares at processing mecca. "Uh... well, I guess that's where all your money went." <> (Wired with SEMTEX?) ("If I can't have it, nobody can.") <> <> * Fitzroy blinks, "I'd say so." * Katherine realizes what exactly is on those boxes, shivers, and says, "Well... uh... wow. I don't think I'm going in there, after all." <> Just don't... press any big red buttons. <> * Threnody finds a sheet, then sits down again at a table and carefully draws something, which he then turns around. It's a flowchart. [ Big corporation with universal panacea at high price ] -> [ Dangerously polluted environment ] -> [ Workers have to go ] -> [ Workers pay by credit ] -> [ Workers indebted to company ] -> [ Company has incredible power! ] * Demetreia blinkblinkblinks at it. "Ohhhh..." (*flips it over* [ Stick ] -> [ Metal ] -> [ Spear ]) (HA.) (The multiversal truth.) (Hah!) ( HA! ) Anyways, Roy's right. We should explain what we can do for eachother. * Threnody looks at Roch, then suddenly blinks and flips over the paper, scribbles ANOTHER flowchart on it, and walks over to Kat and Roy, flipping it over. [ Panacea ] -> [ AllDrug ] -> [ Mutations in wildlife (I saw some) ] -> [ Illyana Aliyeva syndrome? ] * Katherine licks her lips, then looks at Roy. "Anyway. I guess this means there isn't any way to actually help you look things up, so, uh... have fun looking up ZeRoCanx, I guess. If these INU people are anti-corp, it'll probably be easy..." she looks past Thren and STARES. * Threnody doesn't look any happier than Kat does, believe me. * Leopoldo os. "Ooooh." * Katherine looks a mix of shocked and... confused. "Aw, fuck. Fuck! They couldn't... god dammit. There's no way. There... they can't have gone to Europa." Yeah. The name sounds familiar. I think I saw a file on them earlier. * Demetreia looks confused. Or... dammit. No. The Messenger was... * Threnody swivels his head at Roy in alarm. <> * Threnody closes his eyes and, with a pained expression, manages to say to everyone: %% I saw a mutated fish at Pike Place Market. And if this is the Sleythin AllDrug, seriously bad things are going to OW. %% Then he holds his head and rubs his temples a second. %% ...happen. %% * Demetreia blinks, then looks at Thren in concern. "Er....are you all right?" * Katherine rubs her head and says, "I... It's a long shot... it could just be radiation... AllDrug... is... it'd be obvious." * Threnody puts the paper on the wall, then scribbles something in the margins and turns it around so Deme can see it: Talking to many at once = headache. (You missed nothing, I don't think.) (<_< What the fuck? I click on the channel in the mIRC top bar and it just .... closed.) (Anyhow.) Oh...I'm sorry. Would you like a, um, refreshment? I agree that mutated animals do mean something's going to happen. And we should try and stop it? * Threnody shakes his head at Deme with a smile. * Demetreia nods. "Okay." hmm.. let's see. Before I forget, here's the general idea of who we are.. Kat's an assasin with cyber hair and nano-regeneration. aka RazorKat.. ( I can't believe I'm getting my ass handed to me by a drunken rat. ) * Threnody shakes his head, and scribbles down "I got it all from Potatocat" on the paper, showing it to Roy. Leo is cybered up and uses the Tsukitomi sword style... Oh.. Deme too? * Threnody nods. * Leopoldo nods. * Demetreia shrugs. Ah.. well that saves that. * Fitzroy seems a bit distracted. * Katherine is standing there, and says, "Yeah... you.... look into them. Look into excavations too... Meteors. Maybe about when the company started making money." * Demetreia blinks some more. At this rate she'll be Demebomb in no time. "Who, me?" * Threnody scribbles "Space exploration and salvage, too" on the paper. * Katherine rubs her head. "Roy. I... dammit, where is Anders?" Oh, right. That makes sense. (*eyes /msg and cracks up* I am batting a thousand tonight. I'm even using telepathic smileys!) Deme, in this universe you're technically my sister. * Demetreia stares at Leo. "..." (HA.) * Fitzroy raises an eyebrow.. "Speak o' the devil. Email, guys." He forwards a message to those who can get it. * Katherine frowns to herself. We've got a job on ZeRoCanx. (HALLELUJAH.) * Threnody blinks and turns to Roy. A...job? <> Yeah, funny how that works. * Katherine chuckles weakly. "Lucky us." Well, that makes it easy. * Threnody stretches. He actually looks kinda happy. We've got a break & enter mission on them. * Katherine pauses for a second, then says, "... You know, we're all apparently assassins, but does any of us do straight B&E?" * Threnody shrugs, and uses up the last of his available paper space: "It's worth a shot." * Rochelle looks up at Katherine and rowls. The heck you guys talking about? We've got a Breaking and Entering mission against ZeRoCanx. Yeah, I got that part. And they're asking if any of us know how to do that. (Hey, Shar. What's the keyboard shortcut for force quit?) (Cmd-Optn-Esc, I believe.) * Threnody blinks, then points at the cat. Hell yeah. I do that sort of thing all the time. * Katherine looks over at Roch, who actually 'spoke up', but it's not exactly a meaningful conversation. "Oh. Good." (Ah! Thanks.) ( No problem. ) (Scratch one burnable DVD. >_<) * Katherine looks at Vera, then says, "Uh, right. So. Roy finishes looking up the data... we look up where their HQ is, case it. Standard... intel stuff." She chuckles. "We've even done this before." (GRAGH. Need to reboot.) * Leopoldo looks at Roche. "Literal catburgler? That's nice." (... why do you keep using Roche?) (Uh, why not?) (First five leters of her name?) (I feel a fast forward or quick intel dump coming on.) So, looks like we can do this any time we want.. but the operating hours of ZeRoCanx are 7am to 8pm Mon-Sat. And today is.. Friday. (Just make a decision on when and we can cut it for tonight.) ... So are we just supposed to hit one of the suppliers, or do they do everything from the HQ? HQ, probably. I think we hit a local branch here in town. It looks like this is going to be a big strike.. other operatives at other branches across the globe. Oh, my. * Katherine mms, and nods. "Okay, then. Tonight, or have more time to case it and tomorrow night?" She looks around. Almost as if she expects anyone to care. Er...this is probably a stupid question...but who are these employers that just gave us this job? ATC? Hell, let's go now. I'm up for it. We work for a group called the INU. <> ...er, okay. Maybe we should wait until hours our out? In this world it's kind of an anti-corporation group. Ah. * Katherine looks at Vera with a slight head tilt. "Yeah. Which is why I said tonight or tomorrow night, not, 'Right now when everyone would see us and make problems.'" I meant we could case the joint. Be nice to get the layout of the building, yo. That way when we go there tonight, we know where to go. Okay, that makes more sense. * Fitzroy nods "We ought to spend a little time researching the building." * Demetreia shrugs. (Sound like a plan? z-z) * Katherine looks at Vera funny again, then finally says, "... Yeah. Well, if you're up for it, I am. Anyone else want to come along? Roch?" * Rochelle perks her ears and looks at Katherine. * Katherine looks down at the cat and gets an amused smile. "If you're going to be sneaking, you should case it too." * Threnody snaps out of whatever daze he was in and nods at Kat. (Sorry. OS issues.) * Rochelle meows, then sets her chin back down. * Demetreia shrugs again. I'm not a B&E kind of guy. Not me me anyways. I'll just case it myself. Roy, see if you can dig up blueprints, a staff list, or anything like that. The rest of you figure out how to use your bodies. * Vera heads to the elevator. "Laters." * Threnody blinks, then frowns at Vera. * Rochelle blinks at Vera as she leaves. * Katherine frowns at Vera too and follows, saying with a hint of annoyance, "If anyone wanted to come, looks like it's time to go." * Fitzroy nods "I was thinking it'd be better if I stayed" ( Will we be miniing this? ) (Who knows. @_@) * Rochelle gets to her paws, stretches, and hops down from the couch. She pads after the women. (...gah. ) * Threnody also pads after the women. Ninja! * Demetreia looks back and forth uncertainly. * Leopoldo shrugs at Demetreia. (Don't feel bad. Too big a crowd of casers would look bad. ^_^;) ( That too. ^^ ) * Demetreia shrugs back, and sits down on the couch. <> ....like brother, like sister, I suppose? (I'm sure there's a documentary on wood!) * Leopoldo sits down. "Guess so. Oh, as for what you can do, you can project forcefields." (I'm tired and have nothing worked out. Can we continue this next week?) ...that's interesting. (Fine with me. Meow.) ( What Roch said, minus the meow. ) * Leopoldo smiles a little. "Fits you, I'd say." (We could even theoretically mini it, as Shar implied.) (Hiss, yeah.) (But yes.) (I'm fine.) (Vera knows alphabet!) * Demetreia looks down, confused. "Thank you, I think." (Awwww.) (They're so cute. The lizard giant and the iron girl.) <>