[Date: Monday, March 29th, 2042. Time: 8:00 p.m.] [One way or another, you've all been told to report to the building on Fugahoka Technical University's campus devoted to clubs for your first day of work. And you all actually did, report, too. No hijacking the plot before I even start. The room your in is 1042, but you've got the entire top floor to yourselves, you lucky raccoons.] [Someone is supposed to come along to tell you what exactly to do, but he hasn't arrived yet, so you're all just chillin'.] [Session Start] * Peter is sitting in a chair and reading a book. He looks way, way too old to be a college student. (We're raccoons? Wow, we *are* cool.) ( Rocky? Where? ) [Oh, did I mention that classes are out for the summer? I should do that, huh? :P] (But... it's March.) [Though there's summer classes running anyhow.] ( HUSH. Do not argue with the GM. ) ( ... Oops. I meant May ^^ ) [Suddenly, you realize the calendar on the wall is wrong; it's actually May 30th, not March. Oops.] (So, we doing descriptions of our characters?) ( Wouldn't be a bad idea, yeah. ) (Only if you want us to know what you look like. ;) ) * Rei 's head is bowed, as she's playing with the wires in a little black box which may or may not be a bomb. She has fairly short, extremely wild black hair and a rather pale complexion. * Rei is also wearing all of the following: a polka-dotted blue and bright yellow shirt, a purple windbreaker, jeans, and bright green sneakers. No, really. * Makoto is standing with his back to the wall beside the door, idly throwing a butterfly yo-yo (the outer edges are bigger around than the middle) painted with black and white checkers that blur gray as the yo-yo spins. * Maria is sitting in a chair, although she fidgets uncomfortably. She has a backpack next to her seat, and looks about the right age for a college student. She's dressed about right, too. She is short, has long black hair, and is really quite cute. [For the record, the clubroom hasn't changed much in the last 20 years.] * Makoto himself is lean, a bit muscular and slightly tanned, with close cropped black hair, black cargo pants, a white T-shirt and a gray long-sleeved shirt (wrinkled and completely unbottoned), and gray sneakers. * Chomei is leaning against the wall closest to the door with his arms crossed. He has spikey blue hair, but other than that he doesn't look unusual. * Lazar is standing a bit behind and to the right of Peter, arms folded. He is most definately *not* Japanese; rather, he appears to be of some sort of dark- skinned Eastern European descent. He has long longish black hair, with the bags hanging down over his forehead, and is rather large. * Peter is a rather tall, handsome older man. He looks in his late thirties, he's got short brown hair, graying at the edges. He's wearing a tweede suit, and is reading a book. ( Sure he does. He showed up for MC, didn't he? :P ) ( er, - long. ^_^;; ) * Chie leans back in a chair, arms folded behind her head, eyes half-closed. She has short red hair that would put a fire engine to shame. Her left ear sparkles with a rainbow of piercings, while her right ear has only a single silver hoop. She's rather petite, and is wearing a black tank top and black jeans. A large bag rests on the floor next to her chair. * Chomei is, however, wearing all black, including a black jacket and a fingerless glove on his left hand. (Chomei is Togo Jr.!) ( It's a goth convention! ) * Maria is wearing long pants and a jacket, which is odd considering that it's summer. She glances at you all periodically. * Peter places a bookmark in his book and closes it, looking around. ( The more observant among you will also notice what appear to be scars of some sort under Lazar's bangs. ) * Rei yanks on a wire, and stands and powerposes with a manic grin. For the first time you can see her eyes: they're a rather striking violet. "Yes! I rule the world now until forever, and past then to eternity!" Do not. Do too. So there. * Makoto glances up when the clown-in-training leaps to her feet. Can I borrow Australia? (Makoto's a girl!) Well... maybe. Whaddaya wanna do with it? * Peter stares at Rei. "Hmm?" ( Is not! Not right NOW anyway. ) * Chomei looks at the psycho-girl with a strange look on his face. Oh. Well, damn. What's that leave me, then? * Chie opens one eye, looks over at Rei, smirks briefly, then goes back to resting. (Wrong pronoun for you, Makoto. ^^) * Lazar raises an eyebrow. ( Huh? YOU'RE the clown in training, Rei. ) * Chomei goes back to leaning against the wall. Well, lemme see. If he's getting Australia, then... you can have Central America. And New Zealand. * Chie 's eyes are blue-green, by the way, but that's as natural as her hair color. New Zealand works. You can keep Central America. * Rei picks up the evil little black device and turns it over in her hands. "You sure? Mexico City needs work, and I just don't have the time. I'm a busy, busy tyrant, y'know." * Makoto grins and lets the yo-yo hang for a while, watching it spin in place just above the floor. You don't -look- like a tyrant. Nope. More trouble than it's worth. * Rei sticks her tongue out at Makoto. "It's the thought that counts. I'm much more evil than anyone you've ever met. Yup." * Maria smirks. Sure you are. (+"") * Chomei raises an eyebrow to this. * Peter has no idea what to say. * Rei cackles. * Makoto chuckles at that, and tugs on the yo-yo so that it spins back into his hand. Are.. you quite mad? * Chie looks amused. "I think I'm gonna like you already." That would seem to be the case, wouldn't it. * Rei turns the grin to Peter. "Very, very mad. Mad as a hatter. Mad as the guy who wrote the hatter. Carroll made the coolest logic puzzles, though." ( And you'll have a chance to experience said puzzles first hand over the course of this adventure! ) * Maria shrugs. "Not really, no. Just playing along with a joke." * Lazar speaks in somewhat halting Japanese, with a thick Eastern European accent that anyone who knows languages could probably recognizes. "Not mad. Meshuggenah." * Maria eyes Rei, perhaps making sure that it really was a joke. * Rei straightens her battered purple windbreaker, then blinks a few times at Lazar. "What's a Meshuggenah? Is that a synonym for freak or something?" Wouldn't be surprised. He would be on the money if it was true. Not freak. What is word in Japanese... ah yes. Nuts. Ehh, we're all freaks here. No need to be ashamed. Nuts, crazy, whatever. Adjectives to go with a noun to turn into freak. * Chomei checks his watch. * Lazar shakes his head. "When I see freak, little one, I call it freak. You be meshuggenah." * Rei nods sagely, then laughs. "What a neat word, though! I have to keep it. I wonder what Katsu'll do when I use it on him. Probably look it up on the 'net, but whatever, it'll still be great." * Makoto smiles and throws the yo-yo down, then swing it sidways so that the string catches on his finger. The yo-yo keeps spinning in a tighter arc, and lands on part of the string going the other direction. He balances the yo-yo there as the others keep talking. * Rei puts her hands on her hips and tilts her head at Lazar. The smile vanishes from her face. Perhaps we should introduce ourselves while we wait. Okay. I value and respect your honesty, and hope we have a good relationship as teammates in the future. [About that time, the door opens, and in walks a gorgeous woman slightly younger than yourselves (except in Peter's case). She's Japanese, but has blue eyes and waist-length white hair. Her attire consists of a black shirt, black leather pants and a black leather jacket.] * Kirby is now known as Girl (Saki married Quentin!) * Peter peers at the girl. * Maria raises an eyebrow. ( Dear GOD no. ) * Girl eyes everyone, one hand on her hip. "... You the new people?" (Nah, Kaede got sick of the job in Heaven.) * Chomei raises an eyebrow to this. * Rei blinks, then waves cheerily at the girl. "Hi! Yup!" * Lazar nods, then turns his head slightly to the new person. * Makoto watches the girl with an open grin. "Guess so." Indeed we are. * Chomei mumbles to himself. * Maria eyes the girl. "Maybe." I suppose so. * Chie stretches, opens her eyes, and sits up. "Yeah." * Girl pulls out a folded paper from her jacket pocket and glances at it. "Let's see. Chieko Matsuda, Chomei Tochikura, Peter Roivas, Makoto Imagawa, Rei Ueda, and..." She frowns. "'Maria.'" She looks up again, then back down. "Oh yeah, and Lazar Thau." Cool. Do we get to sound off? * Maria smirks. * Lazar nods again. * Girl shrugs. "Feel free." * Chomei stands straight up and starts paying attention. I'm Peter Roivas. * Makoto tugs on the yo-yo string again, sending the wooden toy arcing back the way it came and then up into his hand again. Without missing a beat, he throws it down and lets it hang again, letting it spin idly as he watches everybody begin to make their introductions. Chomei Tochikura here. * Girl nods. * Chie waves idly. "Chieko Matsuda. Call me Chie." * Rei grins again. "I'm Rei Ueda, the quiet one. Or not. I wonder if we have any food around here." * Chomei mumbles "definetly not quiet." I am Lazar Thau, of Transylvania. *slight bow* * Rei shakes her fist at Chomei. "Who asked you, Goth Boy?" I'm Ma--Transylvania? Cool. I mean, I'm Makoto. I asked myself, what's it to you? * Rei blinks, then turns to Lazar, completely ignoring Chomei. "Transylvania? You mean it? Are there really vampipres there? And werewolves? Didja meet Count Chocula?" * Maria shrugs and raises her hand briefly. "Maria." * Chomei shakes his head, then listens as the names go off. * Lazar furrows his brow. "Vampyres, werewolves, and things much worse." * Maria eyes Lazar. (Ard's jumping in my room with a pair of penguin plushies... singing disco all the way.) Transylvania is a mystical hotspot. Supernatural creatures tend to flock there. And I know not of this... Count Chocula you speak of. Is he a Japanese vampyre? (Rei is making me entirely too hyper. Wheee!) ( Rei is taking over Ard. Save her! ) * Makoto blinks at the way Lazar says "Vampyres." It sounds much spookier that way. * Peter looks up at Lazar. "He's a advertisting mascot. Like that annoying pink blob Kirby." Yeah, only not as fluffy. * Rei nods sagely. "It does. Something about the yre part. I still think Count Chocula's freakier, though. He'd kill you with tooth decay and frozen milk migrane. Hey, that's a cool name for a magical girl attack." ... for what does he advertise. A breakfast food. Named after him. Far too sweet. * Girl stares at the paper a minute, frowning. Then she shrugs and looks back up. "And I'm Naomi Kusanagi, from the Korean branch. They sent me here to reinforce the basics, and to look after you for a few days until you're ready to operate alone." * Maria blink at Rei, then shrugs. * Girl is now known as Naomi Ah. (Kusanagi! Ahh! She *is* Quentin's daughter!) Aww, only a few days? (See? See? Saki did marry Quentin!) * Peter stands up and bows to Naomi. "Nice to meet you." ( Looke like it, yeah. ) Only a few days. (What about Norii?) ... a breakfast cereal based on a vampyre? *shakes head; mutters something non-pleasant sounding in another language* Yeah, I know it's not right too. Let's see... it it's been around as long as I can remember though. * Peter peers at Lazar. "It's American actually, not Japanese. You have to change some of those curses around." * Rei smiles at Naomi. "Nice to meetcha, while you're still here. I hope your stay in Japan will be a pleasant one, and your flight home safe. Please keep your traytable up and remain buckled in." * Chie leans forward in her chair. "So, when do we get down to all the top- secret spy stuff?" * Maria waves to Naomi. She then grimaches and changes position so that she's perching on the chair rather than sitting on it. She seems much more comfortable. Soon enough. Later tonight, in fact. * Lazar eyes Peter, and chuckles lightly. * Rei sits on one of the desks and peers at Peter while swinging her feet back and forth. But in the meantime... After I'm gone, you're going to need to pick a group leader. Keep that in mind. Our first assigment is tonight then? * Makoto pulls the yo-yo back to his hand and throws it again when its spin begins to slow. * Naomi nods. * DemoX-Com is now known as Demota Heeeey, Peter? * Chomei states sarcastically, "Joy, I'm full of excitement." * Makoto glances at Chomei. Actually, that sounds cool. When do we get the details? * Peter blinks and peers at Rei, adjusting his glasses. "Err. Yes?" No offense, but I think you're a little old to be masquarading as a college student if, in fact, that's what you're doing. Not that there aren't people who go to college who are your age or older, it's just unusual. (*runs to clean glasses*) * Naomi shrugs and puts the paper away. "Now, if you want. You guys already know everything I was supposed to go over with you anyhow. Otherwise, you wouldn't be here. * Peter chuckles lightly. I'm not masquarading as a student. I'm a new teacher at this school. * Rei blinks. A new teacher? So you're a professor? Cool! I guess this means I hafta call you Professor Rovias then, huh? * Naomi claps her hands together. "Well, perhaps you should start by telling each other what exactly you can do. I believe since we'll be working together, you may call me Peter or Professor Roivas. It is your choice. * Chomei looks over at the bunch sitting at the table. 'Kay prof. * Rei looks over at Naomi. "What we can do? You mean besides sing and dance?" * Charles has joined #BESM * ChanServ sets mode: +o Charles * Naomi rolls her eyes. "Yeah. Besides sing and dance." * Peter sets mode: -o Charles You sing and dance? (In retrospect, I have come to the conclusion that world domination is the best icebreaker EVER.) ( Indeed. ) ( Well, duh. ^_^ ) (Yes indeed.) ( Other than spleens. ) Yes! So does everyone. Except when they don't. But then they suck, and we don't like sucky people on my world, and I rule the world, don't forget. We're not singing or dancing right now. * Chomei rubs his hand on his head. You are in spirit! I sing. But people tend to run screaming from the room when I do. Well, yeah. That's an imporant detail to keep track of. Great, Chie's our sekrit weapon! * Peter coughs. "Well, if nobody minds, I guess I can start." * Chie grins. "Hey, a new use for my singing. Cool." * Makoto snickers at Rei's antics. I enthusiastically don't mind, Professor. Oh boy, this should be interesting. * Naomi rubs her eyes. Sure, prof. You wanna start? Go right ahead. * Rei reaches back and grabs the evil black device from the other desk. She opens her backpack and pulls out some segmented casing, snapping them over the wires. * Peter resists the urge to copy Naomi. ( Besides, his glasses would get in the way. ) (It'd be funny. ^^) * Makoto throws the yo-yo again, just to keep it spinning. He's not really paying it much attention right now. * Maria eyes what Rei does. Y'know, if you don't want to do this either, that's fine. Anyway. My name is Peter Roivas. I'm teach a class on mythology and legends at this very school. I have no special powers, but I do have a perfect memory, and I have been studying supernaturals for years. I also can speak many different languages. I'm afraid I can't think of anything else to mention. (So, who's next?) * Rei doesn't look up from her work. "An photographic memory? Wow. I've never met someone with that before. Heard of it, though. Do you remember everything without closing your eyes, or with?" * Naomi shrugs. "It'll do." (*kicks the Typo Demon*) Most things. If it's something I heard a long time ago, I probably would need to think a bit. According to what I've been told, you're basically the advisor for the group, Peter. Correct? * Rei looks up at Peter and says seriously, "Thinking's bad for your health." ( I must be next. Makoto's theme just came up on WinAmp ) Correct. I've also been working with Interpol for a while. * Naomi nods. "Anyone else care to speak up, or shall I cut to the assignment?" * Peter peers at Rei. "Then I hope to be a very sick man." I guess I'll go next. * Rei grins at Peter. "Cool, prof. I'll join ya in the hospital. We can spend all our time together! Won't it be fun?" My name's Makoto Imagawa, and I signed up just a few days ago because it was the only way to get myself off the "dangerous supernaturals" list. I'm a doppelganger. A what? * Chie looks intrigued. "Shapeshifter, huh?" A doppelganger. A demon who can take the form of another. Doppelganger, yes, in essense a shapeshiter. * Rei blinks, then hops off of the desk, device in hand. She walks over to Makoto and peers at him. "Aww, don't call 'im a demon, prof." * Makoto nods at everybody else's explanation. * Lazar frowns. ( Ooh. Can he he crap out a bunny? ) A dopple... thing? I heard about those. There are actually different kinds of doppelganger, although the most common.. * Peter realizes he's babbling and stops. * Makoto watches Peter carefully for a moment after the professor falls silent. * Peter looks over at Makoto. "Sorry if I've offended you." ... take the form of their victims before killing them. Or something to that effect, yeah. It's okay, Professor. Ohhh... kay. Anyone else? Yeah. You haven't... actually done along those lines yet, right? ... You're not gonna kill anyone, though, right Makoto? (Kicks the typo demon.) * Makoto smiles reassuringly at Chomei and spins the yo-yo again. (anything) * Maria looks Makoto over briefly and shrugs. No, I haven't. And no, Rei, I don't plan on killing anybody either. But that's not very typical for a doppelganger, so some people like to keep an eye on me. * Chomei nods, but he still seems a bit cautious around her. * Maria doesn't seem at all bothered by it. She continues perching. ( Him. ) ( Yay! I've already established gender ambiguity! This will make shapeshifting easier. ^_^ ) Oh. Well, I'll keep an eye on you, then. No killing me, though. Then my loyal subjects'll rise up and throw Jell-O pies at you, and you'll have to try to eat your way out. Unfortunately, eventually you'll be crushed under its gelentanous mass. ^^ What flavor? Lime? ( Grape! ) * Naomi clears her throat. "Does anyone else want to go?" * Rei sniffs. "Of course not. Lime pies are reserved for Utah. Grape." (Damn you, Maria. ^_~) * Makoto opens his mouth to reply to Rei, then looks around at everybody else as they get carried away, and closes his mouth again. ( ^_^_v ) All of Utah will be crushed beneath lime Jell-O! Yeah, I'll go, unless we wanna discuss jello flavors some more. Please do. Please, I don't know how much more Jell-o I can take. ( But there's always room for Jell-O. ) (^_^_v) (Mmmm... Jell-O) * Minaku is now known as Mina|Nausicaa * Chie stands up, holding her bag. "Like I said, I'm Chie. I deal with spirits. I can sense 'em, talk to 'em... and if they start to get disagreeable, I can exorcise 'em. I'm also not half-bad with this. (pulls a Chinese sword out of her bag in one smooth motion and does a few quick swings with it, before putting it away and sitting back down) ... Hey, cool! Can you sense me? * Maria raises an eyebrow. Actually, yeah. I thought there was somethin' about you when I got in. You're not exactly a spirit, but you're close enough for me. * Peter looks curiously at Rei. * Rei grins madly. "Astral projectionist. Astrally projecting essentially gives you a ghost form, and mine's even moreso 'cause I can move stuff in the material world while I do it. So I'm kinda like your own private poltergeist." * Makoto blinks, but is apparently not quite surprised enough to keep the yo-yo spinning cheerily near the floor. * Chomei takes a look at Rei. * Rei switches abruptly to English, "" o/~ * Maria blinks, then shrugs. Dear god, that woman has been dead for ages. I thought everyone forgot about her. * Lazar turns to Naomi. "Should I go now?" * Chomei says quietly to himself "Mom, you are so dead after I get back..." Your memory's perfect, but mine's really long! So long I remember dead stuff that didn't exist when I was born! Or not. * Chie chuckles. "No such luck, prof. You probably don't want to be around me on karaoke night." * Makoto looks at Peter. "Who? Oh, wait. After Lazar speaks." * Naomi shrugs. "Go ahead." * Lazar nods and steps foward, pulling a small pendant out from beneath his shirt. He seems to... go fuzzy for a moment... when he fades back into view, a large loincloth-clad human figure is standing where Lazar was, seemingly carved out of stone, with symbols carved into his forehead. I am Golem. * Rei blinks, then stares at Lazar. For once, she seems almost speechless. Almost. "Put some clothes on, man!" * Maria doesn't ask what a golem is, since evidently that's a golem. ( http://besm.sandwich.net/MC2/art/lazar.jpg for a better visualization. ) Hrmm... I've heard of them but never actually seen one. * Naomi blinks. "Yeah. You sure are." She pulls out the folded sheet of paper and checks it. "Doesn't say much about... oh well, doesn't matter." She puts it back in her pocket. * Maria eyes Naomi briefly. * Chie taps her fingers, trying to recall the golem myth. * Peter doesn't look in the least bit surprised or shocked. * Lazar fingers the pendant again, and goes fuzzy again, before returning to his previous appearance. You can all now see that the carvings on his forehead are retained in his 'human form'. * Makoto tilts his head as he looks Lazar up and down. "What does that writing on your forehead say, Lazar?" Is half of holy symbols needed to animate golem. Half? Half. But... you're moving around. What happened to the rest? * Rei stands on her toes, trying to get a better look at the carvings. "Why doesn't the holographic whatsitis chane the carvings? And can I take a look at that sometime?" (Change even.) * Lazar answers the questions in sequence. "Story for another time. Carvings are powerful magiks, defying illusion. And perhaps." * Rei frowns a little at that, then grins, an almost dangerous twinkle in her eye. "We'll see about that." * Makoto turns all of the answer over in his head to make sure he puts them in the proper order. His lips move silently as he sorts them out, and then at last he nods and gives the yo-yo another twitch to keep it spinning. ( answers, even ) * Chomei eyes Larz suspiciously. I assure you, despite his horrible habit of making puns based on rocks, he is entirely trustworthy. Alright, I'll keep that in mind. Anyone else? * Makoto looks from Peter to Lazar, and back, but says nothing more. Well, I suppose I can go. * Chomei puts his left hand out to the left. A bright light shines through the glove, and materializes as a bow in his left hand. This is Rownal, a... gift from a close relative. * Rei tilts her head as she looks at the bow. Let's just say you don't want to get hit with it. Nice. Cool deal. What, does it turn you to ash or something? So you go into melee combat with a bow? Do you shove arrows into people's eyes like knives or something? No, no! Stone! Or maybe gerbils. Girbils made of stone. ( Gerbils! XD ) Do you really want me to show you what it does? (*kicks the Typo Demon*) If turn people to stone, I have little to fear. Uhm... maybe when we're outside. Later. * Rei nods at Lazar. "But you'll also turn into a gerbil." Yes, a bit later. * Naomi rolls her eyes at Rei again. ... that would be less good. ( I feel so loved. *^_^*) * Chomei gestures with his right hand along the bow, and it vanishes de- materializes back underneath the glove. * Maria looks around. "Guess that just leaves me, huh." (Vanishes dematerializes depixelates!) Guess so. (Gah, typo demon) (Either that or mental block... neither of those are good.) * Maria shrugs. "Fine. I'm Maria, and I move fast and stick to walls. Among other things." ...you're Spidergirl? * Maria twitches. o/~ * Chie grins. "Sorry." * Makoto watches Maria carefully, and seems to think better of what -he- was about to say. I feel the same way when somebody says 'you see dead people' to me. Nah, that joke's old and boring and besides, I'm not dead. * Maria smirks. Nope, you're the only live one so far. * Peter rubs his eyes, being mindful of his glasses. ( Freaks. All of 'em.) ( Damn straight.) And if someone wants me to demonstrate, adding show to tell, that's fine, too. (I get the feeling that the girls are going to get along just fine. >.>;) Well, that was about as painful as an AA meeting. What's next, Nao-Nao? ( Not all of them :P ) * Chomei looks around and counts on his hand. "I think that's it." * Naomi eyes Makoto. "I'll ignore that for now. I guess next, we get to the assignment. * Makoto grins cheekily at Naomi. ( "I am Lazar, and I am alcoh- wait, I have no liver. Why I here?" ) Hi, my name is Rei, and I'm addicted to wanting to be addicted to something. ( Hah! ) * Maria shrugs. "Works for me." ( Hee! ) (*snerk*) * Ked struggles not to riff on every other line. ( ) ( Sorry. ) ('Salright. ^_^) ( Bastard. ) ( I want a riff, too. ) (Someone's in a bad mood. 'sokay Ked.) So, yeah. What're we doing tonight? ( You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Bursting out with an OOC comment not in parenthesis like that. ^_~ ) ( Yes. Go to the pit. The pit of shame. ) It's a fairly simple assignment, this time, but you're not gonna like it much. (Not THE pit of shame?) Oh, goodie. * Chie looks over at Rei, figuring she just gave her the perfect opening. Oh? I'm listening. * Peter looks curiously at Naomi. * Rei looks over at Chie and grins. "The same thing we do every night, Chie, try to take over the- oh wait, we already did that. Go clubbing?" * Chie grins. "You got it." (Ard... typo) ( Sorry, Rei. Seals are extinct in the future. ) (I'll settle for squirrels, then.) Rock! After the mission. ^_^ (And bunnies?) (Only the cute ones.) (You mean the ones on Velious?) Awright! (turns back to Naomi) So, what *is* the mission, then? * Makoto gives the yo-yo another spin and watches Naomi and his new teammates. * Maria raises an eyebrow. "Clubbing what?" They mean partying, Maria. I don't want to know. * Jex has joined #BESM * Maria frowns, looking slightly embarrased. "Oh. Right." * Retrieving #besm info... * Makoto gives the wall-crawler a reassuring smile. "Then again, seems like you can't be too sure what Rei means, in any event." Well, a water treatment plant suddenly stopped working yesterday. The maintence workers who investigated reported finding a nest of some unusual creatures. Judging from his description, I'd say it's probably a family of tigerfish. * Chomei thinks back a bit. "This won't be pretty." 2d6-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Peter (2d6-6) and gets 3. * Rei wrinkles her nose. * Maria smirks. I think Peter can tell you exactly what they are. At any rate, you're the ones who have to stop them. ...we're gonna go kill fish? * Maria frowns. "Tigerfish?" Tigerfish? I guess you don't mean the striped brown catfish with frilly fins that are only about as big as your forearm and taste good with pepper? Sounds smelly. I don't think they're actually fish, right Peter? ...that's the big secret mission? We're going fishing? That's what you'd think, Makoto, until they touch radioactive OOZE and grow to be four feet tall and learn ninjutsu and kick your butt. Who said it was secret? They know fish-fu. * Rei nods sagely. * Maria chuckles. Ahem. The tigerfish is a rather large fish-like monster. Rei, you're either a freak, a maniac, or psycho. See? I was right! * Rei powerposes. It's got the body of a fish and the tail of a snake. * Rei grins at Chomei. "Can't I be all at once? Popular opinion says it's the first, though." (Ahh! It's a Chinese snakehead! Get the poison!) (Eew. @_@) But how -big- is it? It can travel on both land and water. About dog-sized. What size dog? So... these are like really nasty eels? * Lazar turns to Peter, and says something in the previously used Eastern European language. * Chie considers. "Good. I'll wait until it gets on land, then." * Rei starts obviously paying attention to the conversation. * Makoto looks at Chie. "But he said it could travel on both. How would that help you?" Any idea what they like to eat? Maybe we could lure them out of the water. And are they any less maneuverable on land? It's about the size of a pitbull. It eats meat, and it is poisonous. * Chie looks slightly uncomfortable. "Water and I... get along poorly." Okay. We use Chomei as bait! Oh. How about NOT. The poison is a paralyzing type. It will not kill, but it will paralyze you. Aww, c'mon. ^^ * Chamelaeon has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer ) * Peter turns to Lezar and says something. * Chamelaeon has joined #BESM * Rei nods. "Would a large dose kill, though?" I guess that's not very helpful if one of us gets paralyzed while we're swimming, though. They will eat people, in case you are wondering. In other words, just kill the damn thing. So, who's for going to the grocery store and grabbing a few packs of chicken so we can distract 'em? * Maria shrugs. * Makoto raises his hand. * Lazar says something that sounds vaguely curse-like. I'll go! ^^ * Makoto lowers it again. Nevermind. And Makoto, too. D'oh. * Rei beams at Makoto. You'd think the smile was nice. Bwaha. A single one could not kill. If you were bitten by four or five at once, then yes. It could be lethal. Do we know how many there are? Then do not get bitten. They got a next, we're going into a dangerous situation here. Another IMPORTANT thing to remeber is that these creatures can also spit this poison. -Spit- it? (Gah, nest) Oh, *joy*. Oh, swell. I'll play bait, then. Oh, even better. * Maria eyes Rei. "You?" Well... we could hook strings in the chicken. * Rei grins at Maria. "Yes, me. I don't want you guys gettin' hurt, after all." ... poison should not affect me. I can be bait. * Naomi shrugs at Chomei. "I thought it was pretty minor, actually. Of course, I've never dealt with them, but they sure sound easier to fight than werewolves." But you being hurt is fine? You do have a point Naomi. Nope. They won't even touch me. They are rather minor creatures. Nothing like a vampire or werewolf. * Maria blinks. So, does this mean no chicken? Get the chicken after we do the job, okay? No way, I'm gonna get the- well, actually, red meat. The bloodier the better. Where's the treatment plant? -_- It wasn't for me. * Lazar tilts his head at Rei. "You have spirit, little one. Good trait." She's got spirit in more ways than one. * Rei powerposes. At the bay, near Shinjuku. * Maria shrugs and decides to let the others make policy. Cool. ^^ When do we do this, Naomi? ... ah yes. A... pun, is it? Yeah. * Lazar nods. Tonight would be good. The people around there are probably getting anxious for their water supply about now. ( ... that's somehow creepy coming from a character Jesse's playing. ) I have a van, so I can drive us there. * Makoto nods. * Rei thumbs ups at Peter. "I'll go get the bait and meet you guys there. Anyone wanna go grocery shopping with me?" Good. Yeah, I'll go shop with Rei. I've got a motorbike, so I can catch up to y'all there. 'Kay. C'mon, Chie. We've gotta get a head start on these guys, we've got more to do. ^^ I'll be there for backup, but you're pretty much going to be on your own for this. * Maria shrugs. "Sure, I'll go along." Right. You got transport, Rei? * Lazar turns to Peter again. "Did you fix seat from last time I was in van?" Aww, yeah. * Rei waves at Peter and Naomi. "See you there! What time?" Thankfully, yes. I swear, I will have to find a way to renforce these seats. * Maria raises an eyebrow, and then shrugs. She hops off the seat and gets her pack. Coolness. So, us gals will go shopping, and meet you guys there. The sooner, the better. Okie dokie. Yeah, let's get moving. * Rei heads out. Girls rule! * Lazar nods. * Maria follows. *shrug* Later! Well then. Shall we be off? * Chie waves and heads after Rei. We shall. ... you want I should walk? Van was not happy last time... ( Yay. There will be small intermission whilst I'm pulled away from the comp for whatever reason :P ) (^^;) ( Okay! ) (Yay, I can help find the remote now. /me runs off) I'm afraid my van will have to be unhappy. This is rather long walk, and we're going to need your help. ( Waaaaah! ;_; This looks so much fun! ) (^^;;) ( That said, who's going to die first? ) * Lazar raises an eyebrow. "Long walk is not problem. Remember how I arrived here." (You. *stabs Ked*) ( Rei stabbed someone? I'm so proud. *sniffle* ) I do remember, but I'm more worried about the time it would take. * Makoto clears his throat and addresses Peter and Lazar. "If it will help keep the van from breaking, I can fit three other people in my car and follow you two." ( back ) ... point. Van will have to suffer. ( Yay! ) * Peter nods. "Sounds like a good plan Makoto. How about we go?" Going would be a good idea, yes. I'll meet you there. * Naomi leaves. (Back) * Makoto looks around and realizes that he subtracts everybody who's using another method of transportation, that leaves... Hey, Chomei, follow me. We'll take my car. Alright. Professor, we'll meet you around front in the parking lot. My car... is gray. Very gray. * Makoto heads out for the parking lot. * Chomei follows Makoto to the parking lot. [And now we fast forwards to the plant.] ( Yay! ) (Good plan) [Time: 9:30 p.m.] ( Awww. We can't go shopping? ;_; ) ( No. ) ( "Fighting demons is hard! Let's go shopping!" ) ( Hehe. ) (Why wouldn't I be surprised) (o/~) [The plant is large and cylindrical. There was a security guard at the gate, but he didn't bother to stop any of you from going in.] [For fun reference, Peter has a van, Makoto has a car, and Chie, Rei and Naomi all have bikes. Rei's bike wins the best vehicle vote, though, because of the faded "Naginatas rule!" bumpersticker on back.] (I rock. ^_^_v) ( Dangit! ) ( Best Godchild Ever. ) ( Hee. ) (My goodness...) * Rei comes zooming into the parking lot on a really old, beat up motorcycle, turning a corner much faster than she should. She goes straight for the van, not slowing down in the least. (I assume Maria's riding with me.) ( Nope. 'Twas with Rei. ) * Peter has parked the van, and is now staring at Rei. "What.. is she doing?" (Hee. She's braver than I thought.) * Maria is riding on the back of Rei's motorcycle, not looking terribly concerned about the speed and whatnot. * Makoto has wisely parked in an incospicous location several meters from the van. His car is safely parked and the alarm is set. This gives him a great opportunity to watch Rei go zooming past him toward the van as he walks across the parking lot. * Chomei takes a look at Rei. "Man, she's definetly psycho." ( inconspicuous, dangit ) * Lazar steps out of the back of the van. You can almost hear the van sigh with relief. Yeah, really. * Chie follows on her bike, at a slightly more sedate pace. * Rei keeps going! And right when she's about to hit... she stops. On a dime. There's a depressing lack of explosion. * Naomi has already been here. You can guess she's the reason that the security guard didn't even bother to stop you. * Peter hops out of the van and arms the alarm. "You truely have a flare for the dramatic." That... just isn't right. * Chie pulls up next to Rei and valuts off the bike in one smooth motion. "Niiice." Has not van suffered enough? ( And Maria flies off the back of the bike, over Rei's head, and crashes into the van :P ) ( Sweet! I mean... Ouch. ) (vaults, even) * Rei laughs crazily and pulls off her helmet. "Have a little fun. You can let go now, Maria." * Maria hops off the bike, still not seeming bothered. "Hm. I think I'll ride back with Chie." Aww. Heh. * Makoto looks down at the fat line of rubber leading up to Rei's bike. "You must go through tires pretty quick, Rei." * Rei pouts. "I'm just not good enough." * Chomei walks over to where the van and bikes are. Well, yeah. I spend a lot of free time playing with this. It's good for maybe two hours a night. * Maria smirks. "Sorry. But when I want to do death-defying stunts, I'll do them on foot." (By the way, anyone who looks at Chie's back now can see that she has some sort of tattoo.) That's defnietly not normal. Like the bumper sticker, Rei. Reminds me of somebody I know. We go to kill demon fish. What is normal? * Makoto takes mental notes but says nothing except: "We should probably go inside and get some sushi." * Peter walks over to Naomi. "Where are they?" * Rei hops off and puts her helmet over one of the handles. She smirks at Chomei. "Who said anything about being normal?" She blinks at Chie. "Yeah?" Yeah. * Naomi points to a door. "That's the entrence. The stairs to the basement are marked with a sign." Huh. Okay. And normal is for boring people, Chomei. * Chie grins. * Maria yawns, stretches, rolls her neck from side to side. Yeah, says you. * Rei walks to the back of her bike and opens what amounts to its trunk. She pulls out a LARGE chunk of ground meat. "Bloodiest in town!" That'll definetly work. There's more than enough normal going around already. No need for more. * Makoto pulls a yo-yo from one of the many pockets on his pants. Unlike the first one, this yo-yo is made of heavy-looking wood and is painted with black and white spirals that twise hypnotically when he gives it a test spin. * Peter nods, and then peers back towards Rei. "How.. pleasent." (Combat yo-yo?) ( Aye. ) (Awesome.) ( Rawk. ) * Rei waves the meat at Peter, though she has some trouble doing so. It is an awful lot. "Mmm mmm good." She drops it on the ground. "Is the van locked?" (Pretty good. ;) ) (Combat yo-yo, yay! ^^) * Peter takes this moment to reach into a pack he is wearing. From it, he pulls out a crossbow. A rather old crossbow from the looks of it. Anyone who knows weapons could identify it as a chu ko nu, or a chinese repeating crossbow. "Locked as it will ever be." * Naomi yawns a bit. "I'll go with you as far as the stairs. If you run into problems, feel free to call me." Well, unlock it and lemme in! Then lock it again. * Rei nods sagely. * Chomei puts his hand out to the left and summons his bow. Would you mind if I asked why? * Makoto looks at the meat on the ground, and then Rei, and then the van. So I can be bait, duh. * Lazar makes a motion of cracking his knuckles. Having no knuckles to crack, it simply produces a semi-ominous grinding sound. I suppose now is as good as ever. Oh! She's gonna do that thing she told us about. Project. * Maria blinks, then nods. * Rei grins at Makoto. "Ding! You just earned a gold star. I need to go shopping again for the stickers, though." ( *runs for more water*) * Chomei stands back a little and watches carefully. * Peter decides this insane girl might know what's she's talkin' about and unlocks the fan. * Rei climbs into the van and settles on one of the seats. She closes her eyes and, for once, is completely silent. * Makoto grins happily and spins his yo-yo again. Unlike the smaller one, this requires a bit more attention because of its weight. I guess we just wait for her to do her thing? ( Peter leaves some woman he barely knows in his car. ) ( But! At least he has the keys. ) (Who says she can't hotwire it?) (She would, too.) (o/~) She.. isn't planning to drive my car into the ocean or some such crazy thing, is she? I wouldn't put it past her. * Makoto can only shrug helplessly. * Rei is now known as SpiritRei For all I know, she's planning to fly it to Venus. She's a little... quirky, you know? * Naomi chuckles. "Maybe she plans to use it as bait." * SpiritRei wanders through the wall and over to the meat. Nobody can see her (except maybe Chie, I dunno about that ^^), and she picks it up. They *can* see the meat lift. ~I heard that!~ Just a little? (I can see you.) (Rock! I make faces at you! Nyah nyah nyah!) * Makoto winces as the meat floats into the air. Whoops. * Peter stares. "What.. on earth? Is that you Rei?" * Chie watches Rei pick up the meat. "She *is* still with us, you know." Well, I know that -now-, Chie. THanks for warning me ahead of time. ~No, I'm the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future! You've been a bad boy, Peter, and all you get this year is MEAT! No cookie!~ * Chomei takes a nice long look at the floating chunk of beef. * Chie laughs. "No cookie? Darn." * Maria chuckles. .. It is indeed Rei. Amazing, what a interesting power. Are you actually using your astral body to move, or is it some kind of tactical telekenesis? * Lazar hrms. * SpiritRei grins at Chomei and starts spinning the meat. ~I'm dancing meat, oh yes I am, I should go say hi to the fishies now o/~ * Chie snerks. "Lead on." Yes. The fishies will be happy to see you, Mr. Meat. * Jex has quit IRC (Quit: boo. ) Hey, Rei, are you going to lead them out here, or do we follow you? ~Oh yes, they will!~ Her voice sounds deeper at that. ~And now, I must go! I have to save the world!~ * Naomi rubs her eyes again. ~I'll lead them out. Get away from the van, though. I really don't wanna become collateral damage.~ That'll make a very nice distraction, just keep singing that. ~It'd kinda suck. Just a little.~ You got it. Yes, the world ought to be saved. No good if there's nothing left for us to rule. * Makoto walks away from the van, and definitely away from his own car. * Chie pulls out her sword and raises it over her head. "Onward! To glory! And dead fish!" Man, I can smell it from here. * Maria makes a weak attempt at powerposing. "Yeah, that." What, the fish, or the meat? * SpiritRei heads to glory! And fish! And meat. * Chomei backs away from the vehicles. Both. Oh. * SpiritRei zooms to the water treatment plant, meat in hand. She actually moves fairly fast. I never thought I'd see steak do that. * Naomi follows behind everyone else. "It's gonna be a long couple of days." * Lazar watches the meat float away, then pulls out his pendant, again going fuzzy and reappearing in his golem form. (Aww, Naomi, I love you, too. ^^) You know, I almost wish I could see what you guys do. That *has* to be funny. * Peter begins to wonder if these people are all insane. (Define insanity.) Meat probably not kosher. Good. Demon fish no deserve kosher meat. [Inside, the plant looks like a big room with two cylindrical containers and a bunch of pipes. There's a few doors off to the left. Mostly offices, but surely one of them leads to the basement...?] * Chomei thinks Rei is definetly insane... He's not sure about some of the others though. (*puts on Rei's theme*) * Makoto blinks at Lazar. * SpiritRei hmms and starts opening doors and checking rooms. Kosher? Yeah, that's what I was about to ask. Kosher... Jewish law about how food prepared and gathered. * Maria nods. Oh... how does that apply here? Oh. You're probably right, then. I bet the fish aren't Jewish. [Rei notices a sign on one of the doors, written in Japanese: "Basement. Authorized personelle only". It's also in Engrish: "Prace belo. You no go here cirtificatin only please thanks."] Not many Jews in Japan. No kosher meat. ( Yay! Engrish! ) (Nice Engrish!) * SpiritRei cackles and opens the door. * Makoto tilts his head as he gives the yo-yo another spin. Say, Lazar, since you're made of stone, do you have to eat? * Lazar looks around, and rips a fairly large pipe off the wall. "... good balance." (Oh? I thought we were all going down there. ^^;) * Peter is still out in the parking lot. ^_^; [Ok, some of you are outside, some of you are inside, none of you are in the basement yet, but you can go there whenever because Rei found the door.] * SpiritRei goes into the basement, like the fool she is! (Pull Ard. Don't forget your inc message.) * Makoto gathers with the others... in the general vicinity of the front doors. * Chie walks up to the basement door, reads the sign, snickers, then rejoins the others. (Bah. I've done this plenty of times. Well, not the pulling part, but... oh dear.) * Maria is inside, since she does more good there. * Chomei catches up with the others after he notices none of them are in the parking lot anymore. * Naomi waits on the inside, near the entrence. "Anytime now..." * Lazar adjusts his grip on the bigass pipe. "No need to eat. Stone does not hunger." * Peter is in the parking lot. ;_; I guess he follows the others then. (Peter gets hit by a pipe and dies!) * Maria looks at Lazar. "Lucky you." She seems to really mean it, too. ( Curse you Rei! ) It also means he can not experence the pleasure of eating his favorite food. * Lazar shrugs. "Is good and bad." * Chie slips into a ready stance and watches the basement door, waiting for Rei to come back. * Maria shakes her head. "Spent too much time wishing I didn't have to... eh, nevermind." * Lazar nods at Peter. "That is the bad." * Chomei readies his bow. But does he... I'm sorry. Lazar, you don't... Maybe I should wait until we're not sitting around waiting for poisonous demonfish to chase floating meat past us to ask you about your past. * Maria chuckles. Wise plan. * Lazar steps foward towards the front of the group, pipe resting on his shoulder. Yes, I think Confusious said that. * Makoto spins his yo-yo again and returns his attention toward the direction in which Rei traveled. Incidentally, he's somewhere behind and beside the -big freaking stone man-. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for SpiritRei (2d6) and gets 7. You sure about that? I don't think he ever mentioned floating meat. ( Please forgive spelling errors. I'm kinda drowsy. Still good to play however. ((_^ ) * Maria steps towards the front, too, despite not seeming too sturdy. I was attempting a joke. It seems I failed. S'okay, prof, we'll be ready for it next time. * Makoto snickers. * Lazar tilts his head at Maria. "Brave, little one. You join Lazar on front line?" * Chomei takes a few steps back, trying to make sure Makoto and Lazar are both in his peripheral vision. ( Erm... You guys go in yet? ) * Chie keeps an eye on the door, since she'll actually be able to see Rei return. ( We're just sorta standing around the door. ) ( Or just inside the door, yeah. ) * Maria smirks up (and up and up) at Lazar. "Sure." ( I think we're all just inside the door now. Well, the melee people are anyway. ) ( K ) * Lazar grins, an odd sight from a big stone guy. * Maria grins back. * Makoto frowns nervously and glances out at the parking lot, where a pair of ravens have taken roost on top of the van. * Chie starts humming. Off-key. * Lazar turns back to the others. "If things get bad, stay behind me. I make good cover." * Maria chuckles. "I'll bet." I'll... be right back. Yeah, no kidding. Where are you going? * Makoto runs out to the van and starts waving his free arm at the ravens, until they fly off to a tree where he can't reach them. After a while, Makoto hurries back, muttering under his breath in a language that certainly isn't Japanese. Yes, that's a very good question. Sorry about that. I don't like them watching me. * Maria turns to eye Makoto suspiciously, then shrugs and goes back to waiting for fish to arrive. ... Right. Any special reason you are cursing at those ravens? * Naomi just stands off to the side, leaning against the wall. * Chie shrugs. "Whatever suits you." Ravens bad omen. Bring bad luck. ( Ignore that. Sorry. ) ( I just got a Legend Update that I, but not my character was unaware of. ) Yeah. Bad luck. * Chomei shrugs his shoulders. Were-ravens bring worse luck, but normal ravens bad. * Makoto spins the yo-yo with quite a bit more force than is strictly necessary. * Naomi yawns. Were-ravens usually cause the bad luck themselves. * Chie raises an eyebrow. "Were-ravens?" ... Hey, not to interrupt, but shouldn't Rei be back by now? Like were-wolves. But ravens. Very bad. Yeah, she really should. It probably takes time to lure creatures. It often takes hunters hours. * Chie frowns. "I was thinking that this was taking a bit long, but I'm not exactly the most patient of people." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for SpiritRei (2d6) and gets 8. I hate waiting, too. * Chomei taps his foot impatiently. * Makoto nods reluctantly. I wonder if we can get a spiritual walkie talkie for Rei, next time. I can go check if she's gone too much longer. * Chie nods at Maria. "Good idea." How about we all go down if she's down too much longer. We might just be able to eliminate the infestation at the source. * Makoto nods at Chomei. I like that idea better. No sense going down one at a time. * SpiritRei bursts into the scene in the form of floating meat (to most of you). ~Five fishies incoming, and they're hungry for dinner!~ She tosses the meat into the middle of the room. Well... any more than we already have. * Makoto promptly shuts up. * Maria shrugs again, which gets a nice effect. She's back, guys. Get ready! * Lazar readies his pipe, and grunts. * Chomei draws his bow and points it at the door. * Chie goes back into her ready stance, sword still drawn. (The one she just came in from.) * Maria rolls up her sleeves and drops into a fighting stance. * Makoto starts spinning the yo-yo in a vertical circle off to one side of his body. In short order, it gets moving so quickly that it hums. * Peter aims his crossbow. [Several seconds pass...] * Maria nods to herself and quickly pulls on a pair of gloves before getting back into the stance. [Several more seconds pass...] Rei? How hungry did you say they were? Um... Guys? Where are the fish? ~Uh... fairly? Aww, man.~ * SpiritRei looks around. She even pokes her head through walls. This is.. rather anticlimatic. Yeah. I see no fish. Or fish monsters for that matter. ~This so sucks, and they suck, too.~ * Chie sighs, though she doesn't relax her stance. "We gonna have to go down there?" * SpiritRei psychically grumbles and grabs the stupid meat. ~It's really dark.~ Looks that way. That's what it looks like. Stubborn fish. You mean you couldn't even see them? How dark? ~No, I could see them, when they got close. * Lazar hefts the pipe over his shoulder again. Oh. ~But I really don't think you wanna wait 'till they get close considering they, y'know, spit evil acidy stuff.~ * Makoto slows the spinning of his yo-yo and yanks it back to his hand. Something you'll learn to invest in on this job: flashlights. * Chomei slowly releases the tension on the string. ~I've got a flashlight! In my backpack. In the van.~ ~Aaaanyway.~ * SpiritRei heads back on down. I have a pen light in the glove box of my car... But that probably wouldn't help. I have a mini-flashlight somewhere on me. * Chomei starts checking his pockets. I've got a flashlight and matches. ( Now would be a great time for them to attack, when we're all searching for lights. ) Are the fish things warm-blooded? * Chomei stops checking, "Nevermind." I got a small one in my bag, but it's not gonna do us much good. If we had to fight them in the trunk of a car, it'd be great. * Makoto chuckles. * Peter pulls a heavy-duty flashlight out of his pack. "Here we go." Well, are we going to wait again, or should we follow Rei? Ah, that'll do. I think Rei should try it one more time, and if it doesn't work then we go in. * Makoto nods. * Maria shrugs. Sounds fine. Alright. * Lazar idly twirls the pipe. * Maria adopts an impatient stance. * SpiritRei returns. ~Okay, I think I get it. They can't go up the stairs.~ Oh. Ahh, crap. Stupid snakes. (Pathing problem?) Well damnit. Oh. Well, that kind of keeps them from coming after us. ~Or they don't want to. In *any* event. I'm gonna throw the meat down there, and give them a little time to set in. That should distract them long enough to get at least a couple shots in.~ ( Yeah. The main room and the basement are on different maps. ) Right. Hm. I guess we don't have much of a choice. Good plan. Then you guys can kick their asses, or whatever it is you do. We're so fabulous!~ So, who gets the flashlight? I'm guessing the Professor doesn't wanna be in the front, anyway. Kick tail, yeah. Who goes down first? * Maria raises an eyebrow. "We're what?" Can anyone fight and hold a light at the same time? We're fabulous, Maria. Really impressive. She dreams about us at night. ~Fierce and fabulous, aww yeah! Come on down when you dare. Bwahahaha!~ ~A light? I'll hold it. Hold it out, prof.~ ... Alright, I'm definetly freaked. * Chie shakes her head. "I fight one-handed, but that light's gonna go all over the place." ...sure. Works for me. * Lazar steps towards the stairs. "I go first, if noone mind." * Chomei makes no objection. Go right ahead, Laz. Go ahead, Laz. We'll be right behind you. Go right ahead, Lazzie. I'll be behind... Maria, who will be glad to go after you. (Peter? You awake? ^^;) Be careful Lezar. ( Yes, I am. Sorry. ) And I'll be behind... her I guess. * Peter holds out the light. I should be ahead of you, Chomei. * SpiritRei takes it from him. She flicks it on and off, then nods and heads on down the stairs, meat under one arm. Well, I already called being behind Maria. * Sonny has left #besm Alright, go ahead. I have no objection to people being in front of me. You're distance fighting, I'm melee. * Makoto hurries over to her to make his point. I'll take the back if you don't mind. I'm not much of a fighter. * Lazar starts walking, albeit slowly. 'sokay Prof, I'd feel left out if I was too far back. Not saying that's a bad thing. * Maria eyes the boys and then follows down after Lazar. ( Bear in mind that the stairs are narrow enough so you have to go one at a time. ) *thudthudthudthudthud* Keep the light on the fish Rei. * Chie follows Makoto, who is following Maria, who is following Lazar, who is following Rei, who has the meat and the flashlight. * Makoto watches Maria's caboose until it's too dark to see. * Chomei follows after Chie * Peter is coming up the rear. * Chie has her sword up in a guard position the whole time. * Maria knew Makoto was too eager to follow her down, anyway. She mutters under her breath. ( ^_^_v ) * SpiritRei is singing, as soon as you guys get close enough. ~The meat stands alone, the meat stands alone! Hi ho a dairy-o, the meat stands alone! o/~ [The light actually goes a fair distance into the room, but it's certainly much larger than what you can see. And everyone but Chomei hears this croaking sound, like a cross between a frog and a cricket.] Just shut *UP* already. Oooh. You guys hear that? Hear what? Yes. Sounds like... hm. The fishies. Amazing. So that is what they sound like? I must remember this. Rei's babbling? Yeah, I'm sick of it already. * Makoto tells Chomei over his shoulder. "Sounds like croaking. Must be the fish." What? Oh, right. ~Chomei's a dork, that we all know! Chomei's a goth with bad poetry, yo!~ Snipe later. Stomp now. I'll have to ask what that means later. I'm all for the stomping. Good priorities Lazar. * Makoto sniggers and waits for the people in front of him to clear the stairs so he can get enough room to spin the yo-yo again. ( Anyone going into the room, and therefore, into the darkness? :P ) Rei, how close are we to the water? * Lazar readies his pipe, whatever a ready pipe looks like. * Chomei readies his bow. ~It's on the other side of the room. Big place, too, so you should be fine.~ * Chie nods, relieved. "Cool." * Maria pulls out a pair of goggles and slips them on. Lead way, then. * SpiritRei pauses. ~Oh, and guys... they might be able to smell you. Which would really suck, but I couldn't exactly verify it.~ * Peter is slowly moving behind everyone else. * Chomei pulls out some goggles as well. Seems he didn't remember he had them. * Chomei slips them on. Great. And me without my snakefish deoderant. ~Comes in two flavors, Lemon and April Fresh! Buy yours today!~ I'll have to keep some handy. * Lazar starts walking foward. "Bring light." ( Sorry if I'm a little out of it guys. I had a long day. ) (S'okay. I'd be *dead* by now if I hadn't taken a nap when I got home from work.) ( 'sokay, Atom. If I could send over some caffeinated balloons, I would. ) (sleep... good...) * Naomi is actually still upstairs. Anyone who glances back notices she's sitting on the top step watching.] [The croaking gets louder.] * Maria continues to follow Lazar, cautiously. She moves without a sound, yo. Heads up guys! * Chie clutches her sword a bit tighter. * Lazar sets his feet. "How far?" I would say... Bah, about there. ( Okay, it's about time to bum-rush these baddies. I say we just push the golem onto them and squish 'em all. ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-2) and gets 9. ( Heh. ) ( Lazar is not all that easy to tip over. =P ) (Squishie squishie!) * Lazar looks back. "Charge?" ( Oh. Drat. I guess the snakes wouldn't wait for us to get an immovable axis and a lever of infinite length, would they? ) [Chomei fires an energy arrow! Doesn't hit anything, though. But the croaking seems to get louder and faster. Everyone roll init ^^] d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for SpiritRei (d6+6) and gets 11. d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (d6+7) and gets 13. d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (d6+7) and gets 8. d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (d6+8) and gets 13. d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Makoto (d6+7) and gets 11. d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (d6+7) and gets 13. ( Of course the stone guy gets the lowest possible Init roll. =P ) (And it's totally random, too.) d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Peter (d6+6) and gets 11. ( Such clever dice. ) [Lesse.... Chomei, Maria, Rei, Makoto, Peter, Lazar, buncha tigerfish.] [Chomei's turn] (Uh, what about me?) ( Oops. ) ( Wait a sec. ) [Should be... Chie, Maria, Rei, Makoto, Peter, Chomei, Lazar, buncha tigerfish.] ( Yeah. ) [Chie's turn. Keep in mind, attacking an enemy in total darkness gives you a +4 to hit, unless you have blindfighting.] ( What happened to Rei's flashlight? ) (Yah. ^^;;) ( She can aim it on her turn ^_^ ) (Oh, well then. ^_^) Dammit, still can't see a thing! (holding action until after Rei's turn) [Maria's turn] * Maria frowns and waits for the fish to be illumined. (holding action) [Rei's turn!] * SpiritRei scans the area with the flashlight, and aims the fish at the light! I mean, the light at the fish! 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for SpiritRei (2d6-4) and gets 2. [Rei shines the light on three of the critters. They're fish with legs and snake tails. Where the tiger part of tigerfish came from, we may never know.] ( Hehe. ) (So I may take my action now?) ( Yeah ) * Chie rushes the nearest fish and swings at it. "Kyaaah!" 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 3. [Chie hits the fish, giving it a good sized cut. It's still up, though.] [Makoto's turn] * Makoto takes two big steps after Chie, from a slightly different angle so as not to smack he in the head, and swings the yo-yo in a pretty simple overhand swipe. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Makoto (2d6-2) and gets 4. ( he => her ) ( His. Her. Whatever. ) ( o/" It's the Crying Game... o/" ) [Makoto cracks the same fish on the head. It falls to its side, unmoving.] [Peter's turn] ( And her, because he didn't want to hit Chie's head. He wasn't in danger of hitting his own. I hope. :P ) (Thank you for not hitting me in the head. ^_^) * Peter takes aim at a fish and that's all (using this turn to aim) [Chomei's turn] Annoying buggers.... ~Not as bad as you, Chomei-kun!~ * Chomei takes aim and lets another shot fly at one of the fish-things. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-2) and gets 2. [Chomei certainly hits this time. An energy bolt collides with a tigerfish, causing it to croak in pain. It's still up, though.] [Lazar's turn] * Lazar turns towards the uninjured fish-thing, gets both hands on the pipe, and slams it down on top of the fish. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-2) and gets 2. * Jukor has quit IRC (Quit: ) [There's an audiable crack when Lazar hits, and the fish goes splat on the ground. It ain't pretty to look at. And now Lazar's pipe is covered with goo.] ( Mmm... Goo good! ) * Rowyn has joined #besm [Maria's turn. There's one injured fish still in the light.] * Maria waits her turn, and then goes after the injured fish, lashing out at it with a kick. 2d6-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-5) and gets 4. [Maria's kick sends it flying out of the light, but it stopped croaking, so that's probably good.] [Tigerfishies turn] [One of the fishies leaps out of the darkness at Maria and bites at her leg. She needs a defense roll.] 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-4) and gets 2. * SpiritRei starts singing, ~ Hoo! hoo hah! o/~ [And she makes it. Also out of the darkness comes jet of green liquid, heading for Chie, who needs a ranged defense roll.] 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6) and gets 9. (>_<) ( ;_; ) (x.x) (That'll leave a mark) 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6+2) and gets 7. [Chie feels aches all over her body. She also feels a lot weaker, and falls to the ground unable to support her own weight.] [Maria's turn] ~Chie!~ Ahhhhhh... * Chie 's sword clatters to the ground as well. * Chomei looks over. "Shoot." (No, that's your job.) * Lazar curses in another language again. "Someone attend to her!" ( No fishes in the light, yes? ) [No, but one's biting at your leg somewhere around here.] * Demota has quit IRC (Quit: ) ( I'll wait until I can see it. Holding turn. ^_^ ) [Rei's turn] * SpiritRei shine the light on one (or both) of the fishies. 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for SpiritRei (2d6-4) and gets -1. * Chamelaeon has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer ) [Rei illuminates both tigerfish.] ( Rei's got some serious flashlight skills. ) (I rawk.) (No kidding.) ( Best flashlighting ever. ) ( Hehe. ) ( Indeed. ) ( Wow. We've said Indeed a lot. ) [Oh, um... Makoto's turn] (And nobody's gotten hit by a plushie yet. Miraculous.) (Yet.) ( Yet. :P ) (Oh boy.) ( There'll be more Kirby plushies than you can count, mark my words. ) * Makoto lets his yo-yo slow and clatter against the ground--even though it's still attached to the string, and his finger--and kneels to grab Chie under the arms and drag her bag toward Peter. ( Just moving her to safety. Don't mind me. ) * Demota has joined #BESM * ChanServ sets mode: +o Demota [Speaking of Peter, it's his turn] ( bag => back... right. ) (I would thank you, but I'm not sure if I can talk. Can I talk?) * Peter goes to check on Chie. ( Yes, that's it. ) ( Yes, save her bag. She has good stuff in there. ) * Chamelaeon has joined #BESM (I do, actually. ;p) * ChanServ sets mode: +o Chamelaeon ( Hehe. Well, good! ) [Chomei's turn] * Chamelaeon is now known as ChamInnaSleep * Chomei takes careful aim at the fish. As he does so, a red fire appears where the arrow would normally go. He let's loose the arrow at one of the two fish in the light. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-2) and gets 4. * Peter has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer ) ( Ook. ) ( Nooo! A grue ate Peter! We should have brought more lights! ) (That ain't good...) ( Yum. :9) [Chomei's fire arrow hits the further fish dead on. It falls over and stops moving even before it's body is set ablaze.] ( Sweet sweet arrows of death. ) [Lazar's turn] * Lazar runs at the last fish thingy, swinging his pipe like a golf club at it. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-2) and gets 8. ( ... dangit. ) ( Golems don't golf, apparently. ) (Guess not.) [... Lazar shoulda stuck with the 'beat-it-over-the-head' plan.] [Maria, you gonna do anything?] ( Sure am! ) * Peter has joined #BESM * Maria swings another kick at the remaining fish-in-the-light. 2d6-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-5) and gets 2. ( Oh. False alarm. The grue didn't get him. Or else he just loaded the game. wb Atom ) [Maria kicks the tigerfish solidly, but it's still up and moving.] [And incidently, trying to eat her! roll unarmed defense, Maria, quick!] 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-4) and gets 6. ( Oof. ) [The tigerfish sinks its teeth into Maria. Now she needs a body roll at +2] 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6+2) and gets 8. ( Barely. ) [Lucky for Maria, she pulls her leg away before the fish can inject the poison. Her leg is still nice and bloody, though.] [Chie is out of commission, so.... It's Maria's turn again :P] * Maria frowns and swings another kick at the fish. 2d6-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-5) and gets 4. [The fish shrinks away from Maria, managing to avoid the kick.] [Rei's turn] (The light's still on the fish, right?) ( Yup ) ( Club it with the flashlight! ) (Go for it!) * SpiritRei points a finger at the fish. ~Stupid thing! Right brain red, left brain... perriwinkle! On behalf of Chie, I will... nevermind. We already got that one. But it's the thought that counts.~ 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for SpiritRei (2d6-1) and gets 4. (*cracks up*) (Um... why perriwinkle?) (Because I said so, goth boy.) (Why not?) ( Why not? ) ( Gosh. That's quite a battlecry. ) (I knew I shouldn't have asked.) [Makoto's turn] (Wait, did Rei actually do anything?) (Wouldn't you like to know?) ( It's a secret to everybody! ) (*snerk* * Makoto hurries back to the battle, figuring that Chie should be okay now. He starts spinning his yo-yo nice and fast... (but would he have enough time to use it?) ( Yes, actually, he would. ) (Good!) * Makoto whips at the tigerfish with the yo-yo. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Makoto (2d6-2) and gets 8. ( Oh, drat. ) [Makoto whips the yo-yo right over its head.] [Peter's turn] ( Y'know, it was like this in the first session of MC1, too. They got the monster down to the point where one more hit would kill it, and then they just couldn't hit it :P ) * Peter takes aim at the tigerfish with his bow and fires. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Peter (2d6-3) and gets 6. ( Just made it. ) ( Don't jinx it! ) [Peter shoots it in the head, and it stops moving and stuff.] ( That's all of them. ) (w00t) * Lazar tosses the pipe aside in disgust, and turns to Maria. "Are you alright, little one?" * Peter goes to check on the wounded as best he can. * Chomei looks around the room, making sure there aren't any more. ~That was freaky. Is Chie all right?~ * Makoto brings the yo-yo back to his hand and steps hard on a snake or two, just to make sure they're -really- dead. * SpiritRei floats over to Chie and shines the flashlight in her face. ~No, Chie! Don't go into the light! I mean, not that light! You can do to this one.~ * Chie squints. "Gahhh..." She's just stunned Rei. She'll be fine. * Maria winces and turns around, limping a bit. "Been better. On the bright side, I'm pretty sure I haven't been poisoned." * Chomei takes a look at the floating flashlight and the group assembled around Chie. "Is she alright?" * Chie wiggles slightly. * Makoto is plunged into darkness now, thanks to the fickle nature of the light- bearer. No, if you were poisoned, you would be in less pain. Gimme... a min... be okay. * SpiritRei beams. ~Well, I hadta make sure.~ She pulls the flashlight away. ~Gotta make sure we can party later and everything, right?~ Good. My apologies... had I hit the fish, it would not have been alive to bite you. * Chie slowly recovers, and sits up. "Tch. Careless." ~Anyway, nobody be stupid and touch the fish thingies. We should probably talk to Naomi about getting the bodies properly disposed of. We can have a funeral service and everything!~ You always think somebody else is gonna get hit, not you. Yeah, you always do. * SpiritRei laughs. ~Yeah, like me.~ * Maria nods at Peter, then turns to Lazar. "Thanks for he concern, I s'pose. But don't worry yourself over it." * Makoto looks in the direction of the light just -after- kneeling to touch one of the fish things. What? Why not touch them? Sensei'd give me quite a lecture for that. Where's my sword? And your sword is over here. Somewhere. You sure that's all of them? There's a nest down here, right? Could they have... well... reproduced? * Lazar nods. "Can you walk okay?" ~'Cause they have a paralysis toxin in them and I don't think anyone wants to carry you back if they bite on a reflex.~ If I had a -LIGHT- I could get it. * Peter thinks. * SpiritRei tosses the light to Makoto. ~Catch.~ I ...think so. It only hurts when I move, after all. ~Besides, we have to send them to the great sewers in the sky! Or down below.~ * Makoto manages to catch it, though at the expense of having his yo-yo go haywire and tangle up. Crap. Good. By all logic, they could not have reproduced. * Makoto retrieves Chie's sword and brings it, and the light, back to the group. * Chie holds out a hand to take it. Heh. They usually have to spend quite a bit of time in a place before they are comfortable enough to breed, and they have only been here a short period of time. * Makoto hands the sword to Chie. "What're we talking about?" * Chie leans on it and manages to stand up. Ahh. S'better. Well... if you say so. * Maria rolls her shoulders and balances effortlessly on her good leg. "You do this a lot, Laz?" Thanks, Makoto. ~Let's go talk to Naomi. C'mon, c'mon. I'm tired of sitting in this icky meat-smelling nasty ugly basement.~ Back in old country, yes. And thanks for dragging me out of the line of fire earlier. I'd think it would still be a good idea to make sure nothing else is around here. * Makoto dry-washes his hands and nods to Chie. "My pleasure." * Maria nods. * Makoto concentrates on untangling his yo-yo string for a bit, and is momentarily oblivious to decisions made by the rest of the group. ( We almost done? I had to bug, but it's .. well, getting late. ) ( Actually, there is a bit of light in the room, now that one of the corpses is on fire. ) You handled yourself well. And the pipe, too. ( Yeah, we're almost done :P ) (Mmm. Smoked fish.) * Lazar looks up at Chomei. "Give me light. I check, me you back at cars." ( me = meet ) Alright. * SpiritRei starts humming a random song in all of your heads. * Makoto hands the light over to Lazar, having already forgotten that he's still holding it. [Rei hums the Kirby theme] Will you just shut up Rei? Okay, I'm going upstairs now. I need to get a few more tangles out... ~But Kirby'd kick your ass, Chomei. Pink versus Black! Doom versus Gloom! Kirby's major doomage, let me tell ya.~ * Lazar holds the light in one hands, and walks into the darkness, sweeping the beam back and forth. Yeah, let's get out of here. * Chie starts to walk toward the stairs, a bit slower than usual. [Lazar doesn't see anything else of note.] * Peter follows. * Chomei slowly nods. ( And with that, shall I end it? ) * SpiritRei walk-floats up the stairs. * Chomei follows them back up. * Makoto climbs up the stairs to where Naomi sits, winks at her, and then continues outside to untanlge his yo-yo and wait for everybody else. * Maria limps towards the stairs. ( Yay! ) ( Works for me. ) (Wheee!) (Oi... Yeah, sounds good.) * Lazar sees nothing, and starts back towards the stairs... he pauses for a moment, and puts his fist through a wall before going up towards the others. [Session End @_@]