[Day: Sunday, June 5th. Time: 12:30 a.m.] [Only a few hours ago, Makoto's car got smashed and Rei's computer got stolen, so you went to Chie's to get drunk. :P] [Session Start] [The apartment is on the second floor of a three-story building, right above the shop where Chie works/designs jewelry for. The entrance to the apartment is actually in the back, so the group didn't have to go through the shop to get in.] ( Which is good, since that way, you don't notice that it's been burglarized. ) ( Oops! Did I say that out loud? :P ) [Chie opens the door and ushers everybody inside. Inside is... interesting. The living room walls and ceiling are completely plastered with rock posters from groups dating back to the sixties, all British or American.] (Shush, Brett. ;p) [The floor is wood and relatively normal, although there are a couple of throw rugs in bright (read: headache-inducing) patterns.] [There's a small table in the middle of the living room, with a few beanbag chairs scattered around it, and a TV in the corner.] [Off to the side is the kitchen, which is, well, actually normal. Except for the lava lamps.] ( You don't need to get drunk. Just look at the rugs for a while :P ) [In the back is a door that one assumes will lead to the bedroom and bathroom. It's currently closed, although there are a few posters tacked to it as well.] (Hee.) (And... we're here!) * Rei looks around. "Yes! A girl with taste!" And with that, she runrunflops into a beanbag chair. * Chie heads straight for the kitchen, drops her keys on the counter, and goes to the refridgerator. "Okay, what's everybody want? I've got stuff in the cabinets, too." ( The beanbag eats Rei! Oh no! :P ) Have I ever mentioned how cool you are? You're so cool Chie. You give ice cream chills. Brr. Heeey, a Beatles poster. Rock. * Makoto looks around with wide eyes. * Chie gives Rei a thumbs-up. "Only the best." A who? Beatles! * Lazar eyes the room. "Interesting. Bit loud for me, but I always simple kind of person. Nice, though." * Rei points at the poster she's referring to. "See, there's John, George, Paul, and Ringo. What the hell kinda rock you been livin' under, Makoto?" Thanks, Laz. ( More modern stuff, probably :P ) ( Like the popular groups, Buzz, Fizz, and Arcana :P ) (Ooh, The Band! ^_~) * Makoto looks at the poster cautiously, one eyebrow raised. "None. Speaking of rocks, though, all of these guys must be fossils by now. I've never heard of them. And I can't read half the stuff on the posters, anyway." We must remedy that. * Chie quickly leaves the kitchen and heads for the bedroom. ... I do not suppose you have any furniture that golem will not break? [Chie finds it!] * Chie opens the door. Through it, you can see... stuff. Heaps of all kinds of stuff on the floor. And a bed with a zebra-striped comforter. Sorry, Laz. Didn't have golems in mind when I went shopping. The rugs are pretty soft, though. * Makoto peers through the door through which Chie has gone. * Chie enters the bedroom. There's a rummaging sound for a few minutes, then she calls out, "Hey, Rei, can you give me a hand with this?" Cool! Zebras! * Lazar shrugs. "No matter. Floor okay." Sure! * Chie sticks her head back out. "Hey, Makoto, don't you know it's rude to look in a lady's bedroom without her permission?" She winks. * Rei hops up and runs over to Chie. What's up? Whaddaya need? Where's the fire? ( No it's not! The Margina W. Act of 2022 officially made it so it wasn't rude to do that :P ) * Makoto grins crookedly and winks right back. "I must have missed that bit of etiquitte. Sorry." He makes his way over to a beanbag chair and flops into it. * Chie hands Rei an armful of CDs. "Here, this oughtta be a good start." ( Heh. ) (snickers) ( All of these OOC comments. Start getting drunk so I can do stuff IC instead :P ) * Rei cackles and looks down at the CDs. "Ooh, Zeppelin. I'm going to borrow this." Sure! (FOBlish!) * Chie heads out of the bedroom, portable CD player in hand. She plugs it into an outlet in the living room. * Lazar looks around, and stakes out a spot on the carpet near the table. Good, good. My CD player doesn't work anymore - I used it for parts, kinda, but I could prolly remake one. Too bad they're so hard to find. * Rei wanders after Chie, nearly spilling the stack a few times. Yeah, I know. This one took me a while to track down. * Chie heads back to the kitchen. "You pick one to start, Rei... and what do you want to drink? I got pretty much anything." ( Just how out of date would CDs be? ) Ooh, hmm. (Not sure, but Chie likes vintage music. ^_~) ( Hee! ) You too, Makoto. And Laz, anything I can do for you? * Makoto waves a hand. "Anything mixed is fine with me. Surprise me." Heh. You got it. No thanks. I okay. * Chie goes to one of the cabinets and pulls out a glass and several bottles, some of which are unlabeled. * Rei starts poking through the albums. "Well, lessee. Makoto doesn't know who the Beatles are, so... let's start 'im off, yeah?" She extracts Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. * Makoto leans way back in the bean bag and pushes himself around so that he's looking at everybody upside-down. He grins at Rei. "Educate me, baby." Square root of nine is three. * Rei laughs and tries balancing the CD case on Makoto's chin. * Chie does her best bartender impression, putting a bit of this, mixing a bit of that. The result is a nice gold color. Until she puts the last ingredient in. Then it turns green. * Chie shrugs and decides that it'll do. Ooh, that's so cool! Shade shift! I'll have that. Only half of it has to be Tang. Definitely. Ya got Tang, right Chie? Don't tell me I should've gone shopping earlier. Of *course* I have Tang! * Makoto starts to turn toward Lazar, but then holds very still when Rei balances a CD case on his chin. "Hey, Lazar," he says through his teeth, afraid to disturb the CD case. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but did you say that you - used- to be able to eat and sleep and stuff?" You doubt me? * Rei sighs happily. "My hero." * Chie begins to mix up Rei's drink, ears perking up at Makoto's question. * Lazar nods. "Before I golem, yes." That's crazy. How long have you been a golem, if you don't mind me asking? * Chie mixes and stirs, finishing up Rei's drink, then pulls another glass out of the cabinet for herself. * Lazar hrms. "Been in Japan a bit more than a year... took eight or nine months to walk to Japan from Transylvania... about two years." * Chie gets some ice out of the refridgerator, puts it in her glass, then pours a thick, brownish liquid in. So you were a human once, too? And you let them turn you into a golem? Isn't that... I dunno... doesn't it suck? * Makoto reaches out toward Rei. "Hand me another one, let's see if we can make a tower." * Rei picks up a Rolling Stones case and sets it on the Beatles one on Makoto's chin. * Chie grabs a few coasters from a drawer and walks out to the livingroom. She puts one in front of Rei, one in front of Makoto, and one where she's going to sit. Hey, Makoto. Want me to pour your drink down your nose? * Lazar chuckles softly. "No is fun. But no have much choice, either. Nobody force... just what had to be done." * Rei grins maniacally. * Chie makes another two trips and brings out the drinks, then flops onto the floor. Keep goin', Rei. I'll try to keep 'em from falling. * Rei shrugs and sets another one on Makoto's chin. She hands the Beatles CD to Chie. Cheers. Lazar, while I-- oh, pause the balancing. * Chie takes a sip, then takes the CD from Rei and pops it in the CD player. * Makoto sits up and twists around long enough to take a sip of his drink. "Cheers." * Makoto grins at Rei after he has taken his sip. "I think I'll pass on the nose thing, though." * Lazar hmms. "Cheers? Is that normal drinking word in Japan?" Aww, that's no fun. Nah. It's 'kanpai.' But 'cheers' just sounds cooler. Besides, there was a neat American TV show named that about a bar. Only because I don't have enough control of my sinuses to drink through them, Rei. Yet. * Rei pouts, but sips her drink, anyway. She blinks at it, then sips again. "Then what're you waitin' for? Control your sinuses already! I don't have all day, y'know." * Chie takes another sip. "I was born in the wrong century, in the wrong country." * Makoto takes a -much- deeper drink than the first sip, and smacks his tongue appreciatively. In Transylvania, drinking phrase is "Baszom a sza'd sze'le't, Sanyika'm!" I would try, Rei, but if I mess it up I might choke. Wow. That's impressive. * Makoto nods in agreement. That -is- impressive. Big deal! ... I like that. What language is it? Hungarian. Translates to... I think... "I make love to corner of your mouth, dear Alexander!" * Chie cracks up. * Rei laughs. "That's so cool!" Gotta learn Hungarian yesterday. Definitely. So cool. That is *so* awesome. Hungarian very strange language. *grins slightly* * Makoto opens his mouth, and closes it. * Rei takes a bigger drink. "Yum. Tang makes everything better." * Makoto tries again. "This Alexander must have been a -really- popular guy." * Rei cracks up. * Chie takes another sip. "No kidding." * Makoto takes another deep drink. "So, has everybody been outside of Japan before?" Nah, I've never been. * Makoto gives his head a slight jerk in the direction of a poster. Any poster. "Then what's with all the old English stuff?" 'Cause I like it. Got introduced to it a while ago. 'Cause she has taste, that's what. Oh, and I've been... uh... lotsa times. But not for long. Y'know, couple days here, week there, Mom and Dad kill a psycho monster thing, we all go home and're happy and stuff. S'different, you know. Your parents go monster-hunting often? * Makoto looks back and forth between Rei and Chie, but just listens now. Not really. More like they find them. Or us. Whatever. Kinda... um... I dunno. I have a theory on it, though. I mean, sometimes they'd take me an' my brothers along just 'cause they couldn't get a sitter in time. Kinda like taking your kids on a business meeting and turning it into a vacation. * Chie finishes her drink, heads back to the kitchen, and just grabs the bottle. * Chie heads back out, sits down, and pours herself another glass. Yeah? What kinda theory? * Makoto takes another drink, swirls what's left in the bottom of his glass, and tosses it back before setting the empty vessel down on the coaster. "Hit me, Chie, if you please. But, ah, not with anything harder than a hand." * Chie snickers and pours Makoto another drink. * Chie raises her glass. "Hey, what was that phrase again, Laz?" * Rei peers into her glass and drinks some more. "Oh, just that like attracts like. Supernatural attracts supernatural. I think odd occurances gather together; kinda like bubbles of influence, y'know? What if we each carry a bubble with us?" Baszom a sza'd sze'le't, Sanyika'm! Right. Bas... a... ack. * Chie bursts into giggles. "Sorry." * Chie takes another sip. "Heh. If I've got a bubble, 'm sure my family would've loved to see it get popped." * Makoto takes another sip. Why's that? * Lazar grins. "Just go with your version. Easier to say." Like this. * Chie pops a bubble in her drink. Y'mean Basack? Nah. Cheers! * Chie clinks her glass against Makoto's. ( The glasses explode! No, not really :P ) Cheers! * Makoto clinks back, and drinks again. * Rei finishes the drink and flops back into the beanbag chair. She stares at the ceiling. "Hey, Chie, what'd you put in those things?" All kindsa stuff... yep. * Makoto snickers. Ooh. Can I have another one? With Tang? Pretty please? So... that means Chie's the only one who's never left Japan. * Chie is starting to feel the effects a bit, but gets up and goes to the kitchen. * Chie grabs the Tang and the bottles, then walks back in. Y'left Japan? What for? Cheese and cookies? Yeah. Gotta fix that someday. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-2) and gets 4. * Makoto grins. "Nah. I actually moved here when I was six. Before that I lived in Heidelberg." ( "Roll to see if I get drunk!" ) * Chie flops down next to Rei and begins mixing another drink. Where's that? * Makoto takes another sip. "Germany." Oh? Issat where you're from? Oh. So you're a *German* doppelganger. It all makes sense now. The yo- yo. The smile. The cucumbers. * Makoto nods, and sets the glass down for a moment, even though it has some brew left in it. Yeah, those cucumbers gave it all away, huh? But your name's Japanese. Yes! They did! * Chie grins, as if she's just made a great discovery. ( His real name is.... Kirby! ) ... strange. No seem German... no stick in ass. Right. My uncle and aunt--my mom's brother and his wife--they're Japanese. When I went to live with them... thank you Lazar... they decided I should have a Japanese name. So they gave me one. * Chie nods sagely. "Ahh, so you were goin' undercover. What's yer real name, then?" * Rei yoinks her drink from Chie and has a gulp. * Chie pours herself another drink. * Makoto grins, as crookedly as ever, and finishes off his drink. "Felix Spiegel. Most German doppelgangers are Spiegels, on account of the mirrors." Mirrors? * Chie eyes her glass briefly, then has a sip. * Makoto nods, and sets his drink down for a refill. Some connection between mirrors and doppelgangers, but I'm not sure what it is. If you cover a mirror, though, it keeps us away. Keep that in mind if you suspect one of your friends has been swapped. * Chie pours some more stuff into Makoto's glass. A bit sloshes over the side. Feeeeelix. Hmm. Felix. I like that name. Can I call you Felix? Sounds kinda like a cat's name. ... Can you turn into a cat? * Makoto grins at Rei. Yeah! Lessee it! It's not really human enough. Once I saw some guy on television who looked like a cat-person. I could do THAT if you want. * Rei giggles and drinks s'more. Cat person! Turn into a cat person! Yeah! Do it! Were-cat? Okay. Need to sit up. * Makoto does so. No, Lazar, just a guy with a convincing costume. Ah, okay. Real convincing. Were-cats no fun. * Makoto closes his eyes lightly, and concentrates. For a while, nothing happens. The doppelganger furrows his brow a bit, and after a moment dark gray fur begins to grow from his skin. His features stretch and reshape, and even his limbs twist a bit. Finally, he looks like an anthropomorphic gray- white- and black-striped cat. * Makoto opens his eyes again. Ooh, cool! I'm sitting on my tail. It's uncomfortable. Hee! Awesome! Well, don' sit on it, then. * Makoto shifts on the beanbag chair, and lets his new tail come swishing out. It twitches happily behind him, but he doesn't seem to notice. ... amazing. * Rei rolls off the beanbag and touches Makoto's hand. "It's real. So cool! I wanna do that." She blinks at the tail, then goes to poke at that, too. * Chie sips again. "Awww. Such a cute kitty!" * Makoto smiles in a very feline way. Thanks! We can change our clothes very slightly, to help us fit our new bodies, but usually a doppelganger dresses for the part before shapeshifting. Is there limit to how big or small you can be? Hmm... don' think I have any collars. * Makoto nods at Lazar. With a cute little bell... * Chie giggles. I can go anywhere from... about four feet to about seven feet tall. Aww, that's just degrading. No collars unless it's after eleven and the catcatcher's lookin' out for kitties with curfews. Yup. * Rei snatches her drink and sips as she peers at Makoto's tail. 'Safter eleven. * Makoto blinks at Chie and Rei. "I don't know if I have a curfew." ... Oh yeah. Guess it is. * Rei giggles. No curfew for me! ... if cat person, is there need to be fixed? * Makoto looks back at Lazar. "Some doppelgangers can shift even fa-- NO. Just... NO." * Chie cracks up and falls back into her beanbag chair, shaking with laughter. * Rei cracks up. * Lazar grins. "Just checking. No know how things work here." Poor Makoto. 'S cruel, Laz. I'm going to shift back right now unless you all promise to keep sharp objects away from my bits. Promise. Promise! Cross my heart and hope to pie. (Speaking of sharp objects, I forgot to mention this earlier... there's a weapons rack in the bedroom, with a naginata. Not that any of you would have seen it.) * Makoto nods. "Good. And we don't want you to pie." Lazar? * Rei finishes her drink and peers at Makoto's tail s'more. * Makoto twitches his tail at Rei. Yes? * Rei giggles and tries to grab it. ( afk for a sec ) You're supposed to promise to keep sharp objects away from my bits. * Makoto twitches his tail just out of Rei's reach. Bits? What you... oh. Below belt area. I promise. * Chie sits up. "Hey, I know what we c'n do! We c'n play a game! Yeah!" * Makoto smiles and nods again. "Good. What game?" ... unless you want convert to Judiasm. Chinchi... chinchou... a dice game! 's fun! * Makoto opens his mouth again, and says nothing. Lazar seems to make him do that a lot. Finally: "No thank you, Lazar. Not right now, anyway." Chinchilla? How do you play? Hang on, lemme get the stuff. 'kay. Okay. * Chie gets up and staggers into the bedroom. * Rei pouts. "But- but- but- I wanted to play Truth or Dare. Can we play Truth or Dare with dice? Lotsa dice?" She pauses. "Then 'gain, might be better with Chomeeeeei-kun around." We c'n do both. Yay! Why, is he full of dark mystery and sexy charm, or somethin'? And yeah. Need Chomei. Wanna find out all his seeeeeecrets.... 'n stuff. * Rei hops around the room in victory dance, then plunks, practically on top of Makoto. "Wha, you jealous or somethin'?" She peers at him. * Chie emerges from the bedroom, carrying a bowl and three dice. * Chie sets the bowl in the middle of the table. "'kay. S'fun game." ... what this game? * Makoto flashes catlike eyes at Rei. "Maaaybe. Mostly, I'm curious. I just thought he was a cool archer who always skimps on splitting the cost of gas." ( or whatever cars use now... distilled water maybe ) ( bananas? ) Gotta have a word with him on that, then. Not nice ta be a cheapshkate. Anyway. Game. Right! Game. * Makoto lightly thwaps Rei with his tail. You're jealous, jealous, jealous! See? Ow. Y'roll the dice... try to get the highest score. Hee. If you roll two 'f the same... tha one thasss left is y'r score. 'f you roll all ones, you looooose! * Rei pokes Makoto in the side. "Beanbag pig. Hog. Whatever." She tries pushing him a little, but unfortunately, she really *is* a wuss. But 'f you roll all three of something else, you win! * Makoto moves anyway, and lets her share the beanbag. I want to win. What do we get if we win? An there's some other rules 'n shtuff, but thass all I c'n rmember now. Lesss say... the loser has to remove one article of their clothing. Oooh! * Makoto rubs his paws together. I like this game. ... umm, small problem... * Rei settles into the beanbag. "Okay! What do I win? Cars? Tang? Foreign... hey, that's not fair. We already saw Lazar mostly naked, and there's two girls to one Cat-guy!" Oh, yeah. 'f you don't get two or three of the same, y'roll three times. 'f you don't get a roll that counts, score's zero. Also, clothes not real. Illusion. Hmmm. 'sa problem. Drat. Well, c'n play truth or dare with the dice. Loser has to answer one question. 'Kay! * Makoto nods sagely. "Works." Or do a dare instead. Whaddya think? I'm game. Well, I'm not -a- game, but... yeah. I like. ... sounds okay. No involve taking off clothes that don't exist. * Makoto sniggers. Ssssooo... who wantsta start? * Makoto leans over Rei's lap to get his drink. He takes another sip, and then leans over her again to put it back. I'll start! * Chie hands Makoto the dice. 'member, roll all three. * Makoto shakes them 'round in his hand. "So... I just roll them in the bowl thingy?" Yep! * Rei giggles. Fur tickles. She idly tries to snatch the tail some more. 'kay! * Makoto twitches his tail away from Rei and throws the dice. 3 1d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Makoto (3 1d6) and gets 4 5 2. Meh. Boring roll. Did I just lose? Nahh... jus' someone else's turn. You roll again after everyone else's gone... 'less one of 'em wins. Oh, okay. I go! I go! 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (3 d6) and gets 4 5 3. Drat. Beat me by one. * Rei sticks her tongue out at Makoto. * Chie grabs the dice. "My turn!" * Makoto grabs at her tongue with a paw. Cat will get your tongue. 'n you guys didn't score yet. Gotta get two of the same. Ohh, I see. * Chie rolls. 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (3 d6) and gets 4 3 3. Like that! Gotta 4! Wah! * Chie grins. "'m good." * Lazar holds out his hand. "I next." * Rei pouts. * Chie tries to drop the dice in Lazar's hand, but misses with one of them. "Whoops... sorry 'bout that..." * Chie giggles. 1d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Makoto (1d6) and gets 6. ( Chie got a 6! ) ( ^_~ ) Heee! * Lazar chuckles, picks up the die, and throws them... GENTLY. 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (3 d6) and gets 5 5 1. Laz hassa 1! I'm still wiiining! I have nothing. Do we go 'gain or does Makoto just lose? * Makoto holds out a paw for the dice. Hey, you have nothing too, Rei! You two go 'gain. Get two more tries. Yeah? So? So, we can't both lose. Why not? Because... uh... Chie said so! We c'n make a tiebreaker 'f it comes to that. But roll. * Makoto rattles the dice and tosses them. Into a bowl. 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Makoto (3 d6) and gets 4 3 2. Nuh uh! You just said so! Dangit. No soup for you! * Makoto thwaps Rei with his tail again. * Rei takes the dice and rolls them into the bowl, then bursts out laughing. 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (3 d6) and gets 5 1 4. Hah! You threw me off! * Rei grabs the tail and tugs lightly. Excuses, excuses! Wah! * Makoto takes the dice anyway, even though his tail is being manhandled--or Reihandled--now. Just so you know... that really is part of my body, and it feels really kinky when you do that. 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Makoto (3 d6) and gets 4 2 4. Ooooh! All up to you now, Rei! Yosha! Two points! * Rei takes that opportunity to grab a cushion and thwaps Makoto over the head with it. "Huh? Okay!" * Rei takes the dice and rolls. D'oh! 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (3 d6) and gets 1 1 1. Oooh! ... You lose! Bigtime! * Rei peers. "That's bad, innit?" * Makoto flops back on the beanbag and doesn't see the roll. Aww! What happened? [Score: Chie, Makoto, Lazar. Rei loses bigtime] She got all ones! It's not fair! Makoto made me do it! Heee, I won! * Makoto sits up. Truth or daaaare, Rei? ( This is fun to watch ^_^ ) Cool! Chie, make her take her clothes off! * Rei considers. "Both!" * Makoto winks. * Lazar eyes Makoto. "Now now. Be gentleman." I was only teasing, Lazar. * Makoto mumbles something else that sounds like "mostly," but it's hard to be sure... Mmm, 'kay. First, you haveta stand on your head and balance a cushion on your foot... while you're getting tickled. Just making sure. *evil grin* And you gotta keep the cushion up for thirty seconds. * Makoto grins back at Lazar, and then cheers Chie's decision. ... that evil, sadistic, and wrong. I like. Hafta... Aww! * Chie tosses Rei a cushion. "Go to it!" * Rei tries to catch it, ends up just getting hit by it, and falls over. * Makoto sniggers. "This is promising." Hee! ... this bodes poorly. But I can't do a hand- head- upside down stand thingie! Hmm. 'sa problem. I would offer to help you, but somebody might think I'd just use it as an excuse to get fresh. I c'n do it... *starts to stand up but falls back down* Nope, can't. * Chie bursts into helpless giggling. Everythin's an excuse to get fresh with you. * Rei giggles. * Makoto chuckles. Maaaybe. It is! It is it is it is it is it is so! Think she's gotcha there. ... why Makoto get fresh? He like loud blonde woman, right? * Makoto twitches his tail and crosses his arms. * Chie cracks up. * Rei laughs. "'Kay, 'kay. Truth first. Then ya can thinkup a better dare." No, Lazar, that time I was just trying to help the club. Well... she - was- pretty. But too noisy. Makoto an' an'... Bwahahahaha! * Chie stops laughing long enough to look over at Rei. "'kay. Who was th' last guy you dreamed about?" Dreamed? I dun' dream. Wha? I don't dream. Like, I don't sleep right, so I don't dream. Right? Right. I go to sleep, and then I'm still uh... aware, yeah. So I keep thinking and doing stuff even when I'm sleeping. No dreams. * Chie blinks. "Oh... huh... int'restin." How about daydreams? It sucks! Guess iss a side effect of the astral projectin. * Rei pouts, then blinks. "Daydream?" Yeah. Mind wanderin' 'n stuff. Y'know, when you jus' ... stop thinkin' 'bout what you're doing, and your mind wanders off to do its own things without your permission. You don't have to sleep for those. * Makoto has another sip of his drink. Uhm. So y'mean who do I have a crush on or somethin'? Y'could just say so. ( Sure. Rei does that constantly. Didn't you notice? :P ) ( Hah! ) ( The ninja turtles. :P) ( What? They're guys!) Y'don't always dream 'bout y'r crush. But, sure. Tell, tell! Uh. Ummm. ( What, -all- of them? I'm impressed! ) Oooh, Rei's gotta cruuuush~! ( How? The game's barely started. I haven't created enough NPCs yet ;_; ) * Rei blinkblinks and looks mildly panicky for a moment, then blushes. Yes, Rei blushing. She fidgets for a moment, then points at Makoto. (Reread her personality, Brett. It's in there. :P) * Chie grins madly and bursts out laughing. "All right!" No making fun of me or... uh... I'll shave your hair off! Not makin' fun. And no touchin' the hair. * Makoto blinks and looks back and forth between Chie and Rei. "Wait... me?" * Lazar simply grins. Think iss cute. * Chie smiles. Y'were so! * Rei pouts. Nah, nah. 'sides, you win next round, you c'n ask me the same thing. Okay! * Rei cheers up instantly. * Chie makes her way over to Rei and gives her a hug. "Yep! Promise!" * Rei giggles and hugs back. * Makoto still looks blank, but cat-like. * Rei goes back to trying to catch Makoto's tail. * Chie picks up the dice. "'kay, who wantsta go first?" I will. * Makoto just barely remembers to twitch is out of the way. He seems baffled. * Chie hands them to Lazar, managing not to drop any this time. * Lazar eyes Makoto amusedly, then rolls. 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (3 d6) and gets 6 3 4. Mmm. My turn. 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (3 d6) and gets 5 2 3. Nope. Rei? Makoto? One of you's gotta go. Oh! Dice thingies! * Makoto shakes his head briefly, ears twitching. Right! * Rei grabs the dice and drops them in the cup. 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (3 d6) and gets 1 5 6. Noope. I'm next. * Makoto takes the dice and rattles them in one hand while grabbing his glas and finishing off the rest of it in one gulp with the other. Then the throws the dice... amazingly all of them stay in the bowl. 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Makoto (3 d6) and gets 6 3 6. Mmm... Makoto's gotta 3. Yay me! Aww! * Makoto does a little cat dance without leaving the beanbag. "o/~ I got three poooint! I got the poooints! o/~" * Lazar rolls again. 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (3 d6) and gets 5 3 1. * Chie takes another sip of her long-forgotten drink. * Rei giggles. Nope. My turn. Round two, FIGHT! 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (3 d6) and gets 4 6 3. Poo. My turn! Mine! * Rei yoinks and rolls. 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (3 d6) and gets 3 5 5. Gah! Three points for Rei-chan! Three also! * Rei sticks her tongue out at Makoto, then powerposes. V for victory! 'kay, Laz, s'just you 'n me now. * Makoto makes a sad feline face. * Lazar rolls. 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (3 d6) and gets 3 6 4. Uh oh... it's getting close... No is good. * Chie grabs the dice. "C'mon, c'mon!" 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (3 d6) and gets 3 6 6. * Chie blinks. Wow. Three again! Three points! That's one! Two! Three! Ah ah ah ah ah! Laz lost! Laz lost! Gasp! The count! Ess! * Chie giggles and falls back in her beanbag again. * Lazar shrugs. "Lady luck no stay in one place for long." * Rei puts the back of her hand to her mouth and laughs like the Count some more. If I could change into a bat and fly around your head, I would. Aww, thanks! Maybe y'can turn into a bat person instead. Can y'turn into a bat person? Count? * Chie stops giggling and sits up. "Bat people baaaad. And who won?" We all got threes. * Makoto thinks, tapping his nose with a paw--he would tap his chin, but cat's don't have much in the way of chin. Umum. Chie and Makoto roll off, 'cause they got sixes! 'kay. You first, Makoto. Well, I don't know any bat people. And the Count is a character from these old childrens shows that got ported over to German from America. He counted. He was a vampire. They're supposed to be obsessed with counting things, or something. * Makoto takes the dice and rolls 'em. 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Makoto (3 d6) and gets 2 5 6. * Chie rolls the dice, too. 3 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (3 d6) and gets 2 3 5. Nothin'. Do we keep going, then? Hey, since I won last round, you want this one? Okay! ... vampire on children's show? Very very odd... He was a cool vampire! Like, he didn't suck blood or anything. S'American TV. Very cool, but very strange. S'why I like it! * Makoto looks Lazar up and down, twitching his tail thoughtfully. I've got it! * Rei snatches Makoto's tail. "Me too!" Lazar, I want you to help me wwwah! My tail! * Chie giggles. * Rei giggles. ... help you wwwah? * Makoto wiggles his bottom until his tail comes free. Yep! Help him wwwah! * Makoto stands up, unsteadily. * Rei falls into the beanbag and keeps giggling. Yes. Wwah. Stand up, Lazar. * Lazar stands. "What is this wwwah?" Now, we don't have the right props, so you guys are going to have to use your imagination. ( Pull really, really hard :P ) It's not really wwwah, Lazar. You're going to pretend to be old American movie stars. I'll do the voiceovers. * Chie cracks up. Ohhh, this's gonna be gooood! What's goin' on, huh? I don't get it! Charades. Kinda-sorta. * Makoto leads Lazar over to one side of the room and huddles with him for a moment. * Rei floops and takes up the whole beanbag, now that Makoto vacated it. "Ooh, bad dubbing? Cool!" * Lazar blinkblinks. * Makoto breaks from the huddle, and stands quietly out of sight, but where he can still see the golem. "Okay," he whispers. "The first one!" * Lazar nods, somewhat confusedly, and turns back to the girls. He puffs his chest out, and mimes carrying some sort of large gun. * Makoto says in a perfect imitation of Arnold Schwarzenneger "... I'll be back." Oh! Oh! It's like... uh... * Rei cracks up. * Chie giggles and claps. * Makoto whispers. "Next one!" * Lazar does his best squinty glare. Do it again! * Lazar raises his fists up in a boxing stance, and shadowboxes for a moment, also miming getting hit. After a few secounds, he stops, and adopts an "Oy, I just got my ass kicked" posture. * Makoto clears his throat a little and switches his voice to match Sylvester Stallone to a tee. "Adriaaan!" ( Bah. Hit enter a bit soon, but oh well. ^_^;; ) * Chie laughs incredibly hard and wipes tears from her eyes. "Cooool!" * Rei laughs, nearly falling out of the beanbag. * Makoto comes out of hiding, no longer a cat, but now an impossibly bulky version of some American whose head and face look much too small for his body. He stands beside the golem... * Lazar grins, and starts going into a variety of muscle poses. He has big muscles. * Makoto mimics the golem, though he looks very silly beside the real thing. I'm Hans... * Makoto waits for the golem to move his mouth... "And I'm Franz..." And we're here to pump... * Lazar claps! * Makoto claps his hands. "YOU UP!" * Chie grins and laughs. Yeah! * Makoto lets his face and body melt back to normal. He looks rather small beside the golem, now. Yay! * Rei cheers. Whew. That's all I've got for tonight. Thaaat's okay. We love you anyway. Thank you, Lazar! You were great. A natural. * Lazar grins, and hefts Makoto up on one shoulder. Yep! Fantastic! * Chie applauds! * Makoto grins cheekily at Rei. Wwwah! * Rei giggles. Forgot one character. * Makoto looks around dizzily. "I did?" ( Kirby :P ) ( Hah! XD ) (*snerk*) * Lazar grins, and lifts Makoto above his head. "Airplane." *jogs around the room with Makoto held above his head* Wwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! * Rei cracks up. "I wanna turn! * Chie giggles. "All right!" * Makoto holds his arms out like an airplane! * Rei waves her arms. "Please? Pretty please?" * Lazar shrugs, and holds up Makoto with one arm. He picks up Rei with the other, and resumes the jogging. Wheee! * Chie applauds. "Yaaaay!" Yay! I'm flyyyying! * Rei sticks her arms out. "Vroom!" * Makoto shouts over the golem's head. "But you can fly anyway, sort of." Nuh uh, that's floating. Different! Oh! * Makoto goes back to 'flying' Wheee! * Chie giggles and claps again. Chie gets a turn, Chie gets a turn! I'll swap with her! Uh-huh uh-uh! * Chie nods happily. I no have three ha- ah, okay. ( suddenly, Lazar had three arms! :P ) ( HAH! ) (Why? 'Cause the GM said so!) * Lazar puts Makoto down gently on the beanbag chair, picks up Chie, and resumes the aforementioned jogging. Woo-hoo! * Chie puts her arms out and grins. "This's fun!" * Makoto cheers them on for a while, but after a short while his voice trails off and he settles into the beanbag chair and... rests his eyes for just a moment. Honest. * Lazar sets Chie and Rei down after a couple of minutes. "Flight over. No forget luggage." Aww. Thanks for flying Lazar Airlines! * Chie giggles. "Waaay fun!" * Rei wobbles woozily and very nearly falls over. And hey... 's Makoto asleep? * Rei totters over to Makoto and pokes at him. "He's hogging the beanbag!" Looks like. ( He's asleep! Quick! Doodle on him! ) * Chie rolls off her beanbag. "Y'can have mine, Rei." (So tempted o/~) * Makoto opens his eyes again, groggily. "Oh, sorry." Nuh uh. Mine. * Makoto rolls off the beanbag and thumps on the floor. Uf. * Rei sweatdrops and plunks on the beanbag. She peers at Makoto. "Y'okay?" * Chie gulps down the last of her drink. There was actually a bit left. * Lazar chuckles. "Little one no hold liquor very well." * Makoto picks himself up. He looks awake again, though he rubs the back of his neck in an embarrassed sort of way. Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks. You're better now! Good! But I got the beanbag. Hey, no fair! * Chie eyes the dice. "Wanna go one last round, or y'wanna call it a night?" * Rei powerposes, then blinks. "Hey, where'd my drink go?" She looks around, then spots it empty, across the room. "Aww." * Makoto falls forward and just flops across Rei, perpendicularly. There. Now I have the beanbag again. * Rei oofs as Makoto falls onto her. So cute! Do not. * Chie grins. * Rei sticks her tongue out at Chie. "Oh yeah? I bet you have a crush, too!" Who, me? Whatever would make ya think thaaaat? Heh. Yeah! I bet Chie does have a crush. I would join on beanbag, but then there really be crush. * Makoto laughs at that. She does! She dooooes! Yeah, there would be. * Rei puts a pillow on Makoto's face. Yep, there would. Mmf! * Rei giggles. * Makoto waves his arms around for a while, and then slumps as if unconscious. ... Oops. * Chie nods. * Rei pulls off the pillow and peers at Makoto. Poke 'im! * Makoto appears to be out like a light. Hey, Makoto! Don't go inta the light! * Rei tweaks Makoto's nose. * Makoto opens his eyes suddenly. They're all black. Guuuuh! Brrrrraaaaaaaains! Waah! * Makoto grabs Rei. WAH! Brrraaaains! * Rei flails. Quick, get the cheese! Makoto zombie now? * Chie grabs a pillow and wobbles over towards them. "Don' worry Rei, I'll save you!" * Chie whaps Makoto with the pillow. "Bad zombie! No brains or soup for you!" * Lazar is about to get up, but decides to let the girls deal with the undead menace. * Makoto moves as if to gnaws on Rei's shoulder, but then gets whapped, and falls over. I am slain! Again! Woe! Yeah! With no supper! Do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars! ( Heh. Undead menace. I like. ) Yeah! Got 'im! Can I still collect brains? Nuh uh. Hmm. Stop zombie with pillow. I have to remember that. * Makoto is lying on his back, across Rei's feet. Drat. * Makoto chuckles at Lazar. * Makoto sits up quickly and suddenly, and then pounces on Rei and whispers something to her, shielding his mouth with his hands so lipreaders cannot see. * Rei yelps. Hmm. Zombie is still alive. You have wood stake, Chie? * Chie watches, pillow in hand in case Makoto tries something. Nope, but I still have my pillow! * Makoto hops back and sits heavily on the floor. * Rei blinks and looks over at Chie. Gosh, I'm all better now! How about that. Those pillows, they really work. * Chie blinks back at Rei. * Rei grabs a pillow and stands shakily. "I demand!" She points the pillow at Chie. "To know... the TRUTH!" You can't handle the truth! Can so! Tell or I'll smack you with a pillow! * Chie hefts her own pillow. "Bring it on!" * Rei runrunthwaps Chie with her pillow. * Lazar is confuzzled now. Aaah! * Makoto shuffles back to the beanbag and reclines on half of it. He grins at the pillowfight... at least until his eyes drift closed again. * Chie falls over. HA! * Rei throws the pillow at Makoto. "No Z for you!" Mmf! I'm... not... done... yet... Right! I'm up! * Makoto sits up. * Chie whaps Rei, now that Rei's thrown her weapon away. Take *that*! * Rei yelps and falls over, too. Rei! Catch! I am victorious! * Makoto tosses the pillow on Rei. * Rei catches the pillow with her face. But then she picks it up and smacks Chie with it. "Oh yeah? Take that, you agent of dimness!" * Chie takes the thwapping and retaliates. "I'm not dim. I'm *vibrant!*" Are not! *thwap* * Makoto whistles suggestively at Chie's "vibrant" remark. Are too! The hair does not lie! *whap* * Lazar lumbers over to Makoto. "Should I break them up?" * Makoto looks up at Lazar. "Mmm... give them two more whaps each. Then yes." I mean, let them whap each other twice. You don't need to whap anybody. Does so! It lies like a really flat rug with frog stitches on it! *thwap* Thought not. Golem whaps hurt, even with pillow. Are you insultin' my hair? Are you insultin' my hair? This means war, y'know! *whack* *giggle* * Makoto nods and grins and looks back to the pillow fight. "One more each..." * Rei giggles, too. "Yeah, but y'didn't tell us who you have a crush on. And that thar's fightin' words." *thwap* We don' want them to break Chie's stuff. I'll never tell! *whap* *giggle* That my cue. Will so! Rei Rei Supaa TICKLE ATTACK! * Rei attacks Chie's ribs! Ahh! * Chie giggles uncontrollably. "S'not fair!" So's not telling! Tell! Tell! * Lazar lumbers over, and is about to step betwen them when Rei attacks. He looks back at Makoto, and shrugs his shoulders questioningly. Heeee... can't... hahahaha... tell... heheheeee... 'f you're... hahahaha... tickling! * Makoto looks a bit confused himself... "Just make sure they don't... fall on the table, or out the window," he suggests. Oh yeah? * Rei tickles s'more. Ahahahahahahahaha! ...kay... you... win... Victory! * Rei lets up now. And rolls away, towards Makoto and Lazar, 'cause being tickled in retaliation is bad. * Chie tries to get her breath back. You... are... a worthy adversary... Rei. * Chie grins. * Makoto snickers. * Lazar nods. That's 'cause I rock, yo! I thought I rock? * Chie motions Rei over. * Rei rolls back over to Chie. You -are- a rock, Lazar. * Chie giggles. "Different rock. You're both, Laz." Ah, okay. * Chie whispers in Rei's ear. But you also rock. In fact... how's your rhythm? * Lazar shrugs. "Okay, I guess." * Chie blushes. Yep, she does. Hrm... If you can handle percussion, we could start a Mystery Club - band- * Rei blinkblinks, then her mouth forms an O and she nodnods at Chie, just barely keeping herself from giggling. * Chie nods back, still blushing, and puts a finger to her lips. * Chie then giggles. * Makoto is trying very hard to contain his curiosity... * Rei considers that. Not that good. Plus, would probably break drums. Good point. I'll look into something a bit sturdier. Maybe steel drums. Very slowly. * Rei nods again and goes back to rolling, ending up about where she started (only not on the beanbag this time), so pretty much at Makoto's feet. She lies on her back and blinks at the ceiling. "Heeeey, you've even got posters up there." Yep! Was kinda hard gettin' em up. Soooo cool. Like, groovy, man. * Makoto twists to look up at the ceiling, idly and briefly tickling Rei's side with a toe. * Rei giggles and tries swatting Makoto's foot away. * Lazar eyes Chie, grinning slightly. "So Rei say hers outloud and you keep secret? How that fair?" Well, I never actually lost the game. She did. * Makoto lets Rei swat his foot away, but then brings his other one over and uses that. He's still looking nonchalantly at the ceiling. * Chie grins back. Point. * Rei laughs and tries keeping that foot away, too. * Chie lies back down in her beanbag. * Chie sighs contentedly. Her eyes are beginning to drift shut. Oh, Laz? * Makoto lazily swaps feet, giving Rei more and more time to recover from one tickling before trying another. Hmm? * Rei gives up and just tries to keep both away at the same time. You guys can all stay here tonight. You an' Rei an' Makoto. Think I'm gonna go sleep now. Night-night. Really? I'll prolly gooooo back to my 'partment when I sleep, though. I gotta make a new... uh. * Chie closes her eyes. * Rei sobers a little. "'Kay. Nighty." * Makoto stops and sits up. Night, Chie. * Lazar shrugs. "Thanks, but since I no sleep, is hard to stay in one place. If not injured, I usually just wander." * Chie is curled up and asleep. She looks so cute! ( XD ) * Lazar turns to Makoto and Rei. "Should leave her here, or take to room?" Uhm... go ahead and take her to her room. It's probably more comfortable there. * Rei nodnods. And anyway, I saw she has zebra comforters. Who wouldn't want to sleep in a bed with zebra comforters? Everyone needs those! Chie has style and taste and grace. And a sword. And cheese! And... posters! And... uh... Tang! And... hrmm... * Makoto picks up a coaster. Things! These. A CD collection I really really want! * Rei nodnods. Yeah, and CDs of old music that sounds kinda cool, really. * Lazar carefully picks Chie up, and carries her to her room. Holding her up with one arm, he pulls back the blanket, sets her down, and pulls the blanket back up over her. "Night, little one." (Awww. ^_^) (Aww!) ( Cyoot! ) * Lazar wanders back out, closing the door behind him. "You going home, or staying?" Y'should listen to more! Me an' Chie can't steer you wrong. * Rei nods sagely. Uh... both! * Rei giggles. Heh. Her body is staying, but her spirit is going hom, I think is the idea. And I'm probably not good to drive. ( home, even ) * Lazar blinks, then nods in understanding. "Want me to walk home with you? I could carry car..." * Makoto opens his mouth to reply, and then shakes his head. "I think I'll just stay here. My aunt and uncle would worry more about me if I came back tonight with a broken window on my car than if I came back tomorrow with an intact car." * Lazar nods. "I go then. Be gentleman, Makoto." *grin* * Makoto smiles and nods to Lazar. I will. And you take care. See you tomorrow, most likely. Bye bye, Lazar! Don't do anything I wouldn't do! * Lazar nods, opens the door, and leaves, closing it behind him. (Admittedly, that's not a very big list. >.>) ( Heh. ) * Makoto looks around the room. ( So I no can throw bus of nuns off bridge? ... no. ) I'll... clean up a little. And then I'll take Chie's beanbag. You can use this one. (That would be on the list, yes.) * Rei rolls onto her side and does, too. "Whoo, that's kinda messy." * Makoto pats the beanbag he's sitting on, and then stands up. If y'want. ( What if they're vampiric nuns? ) (Then that's okay!) ( Well, then that's different. ) * Makoto sighs and flops down on the beanbag he just left. Maybe not. I'm tired. Shifted three times today. * Rei giggles. "'ll do it 'fore I go. That makes ya tired?" A little. Being tipsy makes it a little harder. * Makoto smiles. Ooh. Buzzzzzz. Yeah. Now that you mention it, I think I have a bee costume at home. Like tuna! Y... eh? Bee... tuna... Bumblebee Tuna! Yep! Dolphin-free, whale-safe! * Rei pauses, then ponders. "Hey, Makoto? Y'get lotsa girls, right?" * Makoto shrugs. "Yes, and no." ( He gets one a month in the mail. =P ) Don' get it. How can it be yes and no? Ya do or ya don't. It's pretty simple, like... uh... like a light switch! Next to a Christmas tree! (Ha!) Well, see... I pretend to be other people, and those people get girls, and sometimes even guys, which is just weird, so I have to be careful sometimes. Oh. * Rei thinks about that. Very hard. "Why?" It's complicated. Physically, I can be a girl if I want to, but physical sensation is relative. I'm not too -terribly- interested to find out what it feels like to make out with an overeager guy. Uh... o-kay. So? So, as Makoto, like you see me now, I don't get a lot of girls. I don't get out as myself very often. Just at the club, and when I'm home, most of the time. * Rei looks really confused. "Why not? Why'd ya want ta pretend you're someone else? That sounds dumb." It's what I -do-, though. Kind of... well, you can't sleep, right? It's not in your nature. I can't be myself too much, or it starts to feel weird. But if I'm not myself enough, that's weird too. So yer someone else to pick up girls? 'S pretty stupid. Then it's not you, it's someone else. I know. It is pretty stupid. But... doppelgangers aren't usually very nice. It's hard for me to avoid causing trouble. So... somewhere along the way I thought that was a harmless enough way to do it. No way! If you're gonna cause trouble, ya gotta do it with style! Like replacin' pool water with Jell-O and putting peanut butter on the toilet seat and stuff. * Makoto chuckles. I could try that, Rei, but I was made to pretend to be other people. Seems a shame to waste that. * Makoto doesn't seem too sure, though. * Rei sits up abruptly and looks into Makoto's eyes. "So what? Like it matters what you were made for. Daddy was made to be a weapon - I read the files, he was! - but he's not doin' what he was s'posed to, I think." And... and I dunno what I'm s'posed to do, and I decided I don't care. * Makoto looks back at Rei, unblinking. He doesn't say anything for a long time. Finally he sighs. "You might be right. But I've gotta find something to do with all my time if I'm not doing what I always do. And sometimes pretending to be other people is just fun. Like with the cat, and the charades." ( Learn to juggle. ... ) ( HAH! ) * Rei beams, suddenly. "I bet it's fun! And it's not a bad thing or anything. Just... it's silly pretending to be someone else when who you are's fine, right? Right. So, uhm. I got lost." * Makoto chuckles. I think I follow you. * Makoto suddenly reaches over and ruffles Rei's hair. Thanks. Really? Good, 'cause I didn't follow me. Kinda like twisty ties, y'know? Ack! * Rei reaches up and pats her hair. It looks just as wildly messy as it did before. "Hey! I spend alla two seconds making my hair look as fabulous as it does!" * Makoto nods and replies with a surprisingly straight face. "It really shows, Rei. That's a good look for you." Ya think? I was thinkin' the other day, y'know, "Rei, girl, y'gotta get it styled." Then I remembered that when Mom took me to do that, I was sittin' in a chair for four hours while they kept tryin' to get it to look all pretty and stuff, but it didn't work or anythin'. And then they freaked out when I didn't react when they tried to get me off the chair! I mean, c'mon. Four hours? I'm not gonna just stay in my body when I had someone to blackmail. * Makoto chuckles again. You mean after all that time it looked the same? * Rei nodnods. Blackmail, huh? That sounds interesting. Uh... not really. Kinda, uhm. Not a lotta people like me, y'know? Or they didn't. And stuff. And I got beat up and picked on a lot, 'cause I'm so strong and terrifying. * Rei flexes her (lack of) muscles. * Makoto nods sagely and squeezes one of Rei's flexed arms. "Like a rock." Yeah! Like Lazar! Ragh! * Makoto laughs, and then sushes himeself so he doesn't wake Chie. * Makoto stretches and supresses a yawn. So then creeeeeepy stuff started happenin' around me, and that and blackmail kept people from doin' too much. Besides calling me names, but what the hell? I really am a freak. (S'okay; she's a heavy sleeper.) * Rei nods. Bah. * Makoto waves a hand dismissively. Not a freak at all. ( Just meshuggenah! ) ( Heh. 'xactly! ) Aww! Does this mean I hafta turn in my Freak Club membership card? Well... no. You may need it for identification at airports. * Makoto covers his mouth with a hand as he yawns again, and can't supress it. Yes, but I cannot possibly continue going to Freak Club meetings on good conscience if my good buddy Makoto says- uh oh. Sleep bug! * Rei pinches Makoto's arm. "Bite!" O_O I'm awake! Awake bug! * Rei powerposes. * Makoto cheers quietly and waves his arms. * Rei giggles. So, yeah! And stuff. Y'live with family, right? Do we need to fix your car before you go back? * Makoto nods. "Yeah, they know I take good care of it, and they'd worry if I let something happen to it. So I was gonna ta-- we?" Yeah! Y'don' actually think I'm gonna go and let your nice car sit with a big hole in the back, huh? Well... I guess not. But if you really want to work on my car, you have to make absolutely certain that you only repair the damage. Do not make any extra modifactions... * Makoto grins. "This time." Awww. You're no fun. Except when you are, but that's no fun. You sure? Well, you have to get all modifications approved by the Committee to Approve Modifications to Makoto's Car. -Before- you make them. But then it's so hard to demonstrate! I mean, c'mon. What car is complete without a nacho cheese dispenser? Hand motions and ad lib sound effects qualify as demonstrations before the CAMMC. ... Think Peter needs demos, too? * Makoto grins crookedly. Definitely. Damn! * Rei pouts. But he doesn't need them BEFORE modifications. After is fine. Ooh. Faaascinating. So, wait! You were gonna fix your car? By yourself? I was going to take it to the shop. I'm not a mechanic. * Makoto lets his head nod sleepily, and his eyelids droop. * Rei ponders. "I can prolly get it done faster than a shop. Don' need to divide my attention too much, after all. Just gotta get a replacement window, but it wouldn't be too much trouble to order one in, right?" * Rei watches Makoto droop and grins, but doesn't do anything about it. This time. Mm-hmm... Hey, Makoto. Your hair's on fire. * Makoto flops gently onto the beanbag. 'kay. Be a dear... put it out? * Rei giggles and patpats Makoto on the head. "Out like an outed candle... thing. Yeah." She yawns herself, then wanders over to the other beanbag. Sleep and computer building time. * Makoto sleeps.