* Maria runs full tilt after the bartender. And full tilt for her is awful fast. * Chomei sprints after him, but that's nothin' compared to what Rei and Maria could probably do. [Indeed it is. And the bartender notices it's a lost cause. Even still, he screams "Help! Help!" at the top of his lungs, up to and after Maria catches up with him.] ~Man, poor guy.~ * Maria grabs the guy with one hand and covers his mouth with the other. "Now, now, no cause to be worried. Honest." * Bartender flails! Maria, make an unarmed defense roll! 2d6-4 ( ...I actually failed that. c.c; ) * Chomei is still sprinting after him. ( I am sorely tempted to crack up, now. ) [The bartender manages to bash Maria in the side of the head, though not very strong. But it's enough to distract her so he can start running again. "HELLLLP!"] * Maria snarls and runs after him again, grabbing and covering again. ~Gah! Get him to calm down! We're with Interpol, and we're not gonna hurt him. Anyone got a god damn badge?~ ( Another defense roll! ) ( So made that one. ) [Maria doesn't get hit in the head this time. But man he's panicking. Can you blame him?] Look, just calm down. We're not going to hurt you. We don't *want* to hurt you. And as long as you don't give us a good reason to change our minds, it'll remain that way. Alright? * Chomei finally catches up to them, breathing heavily as he approaches. Mfffle mffffle mffff! Now, if she uncovers your mouth, will you talk quietly, or continue yelling? * Bartender looks over at Chomei and nods rapidly. 'Xactly. See, we're nice people, really. * Maria uncovers the guy's mouth slowly, hoping that's "yes, I'll talk quietly". * Bartender immediately shrieks. "HEEEEEEEEEEEELP!" * Maria claps her hand over his mouth again. Help! Call the police! Someone hel- pfml! Alright, bring him back to the bar? You're not helping, you know. * SpiritRei rolls her eyes. You want me to help? Or are you talking to him? * Bartender hasn't stopped flailing, either. Chomei, if you think you can calm him down, then by all means get to it. ^_^ ~Man. I'd do somethin', but I'll probably just make things worse, y'know? Strange supernatural occurrences and all.~ Nope, I'm the one who just blasted their eardrumbs out, remember? I just wish there was some way to knock him out or something. * Maria rolls her eyes. "Oh, c'mon. We don't need to knock him out." She looks at the bartender. "Do we?" ( Bleated! With your mighty sheep arrow! ) ~You could knock 'im out. I dunno how this'll make things better, though. I mean, knock him out, and when he comes to he'll just call the police and we'll get in trouble except maybe we won't but I'm not entirely sure how the hell Interpol handles these things. Yeah.~ * Bartender shakes his head. Well, what should we do then? * Bartender calms down a bit. I'll try to calm him down. * Maria sighs and looks at the bartender. "Alright. As I said, we're not here to hurt you. Please understand that. The guys back at your bar stole some very, very important things from us, and we're here to get them back, and that's it. Alright?" * Bartender nods. "Mflemuph!" "Okay. I'm going to take my hand off your mouth now, alright? And you're not going to scream or yell or anything, right? And then we're gonna go back to your bar, and you can sit down, and maybe have a few drinks on me if you feel like it. Sounds good?" * Bartender shakes his head! * SpiritRei looks around. Okay, what's wrong with it? * Maria raises an eyebrow. "And which part didn't you like? The drinks?" * Brett nods. ( ah ) * Bartender nods! So you don't want to drink? That's fine, I guess. * Maria shrugs. "Oh. Well, if you don't drink, that's fine too." She blinks and looks at the bartender. "You're a bartender and doen't drink?" Mphl! * Maria takes her hand off the guy's mouth. "Sorry. What was that?" Look, I have a wife and four kids! Alright I don't have any kids and my last girlfriend dumped me but I will some day and I have glasses but I'm not wearing them right now but you wouldn't hit a guy with glasses right and I have money and can pay you just take what' s in the registerandohgodIdontwannadie! * Bartender cries! Loudly! ~... He doesn't get it. Wow. Give this guy a candy cigar.~ ...okay. We're also not here to rob you. * Bartender doesn't seem like he's paying attention. "I just wanna get my degree!" See, if that were the case, I wouldn't offer to buy drinks for you. That'd just be silly. I'll be a wonderful doctor some day! Mommy said so! Yeah, we'd just take them if we were stealing. * Maria sighs and starts leading the guy back to the bar. "Of course you will, sir." ~And he's regressing! This is fascinating. Where's my pen and paper- oh, damn, I left it in my backpack.~ * Chomei looks at the bartender. "Alright, got that all out of your system yet?" * SpiritRei floats after, peering at the man. I'm going to be saving children! Maybe your children someday! You wouldn't wanna hurt the guy who's gonna save your kids, right? Right?! We're not going to hurt you as long as you stay quiet and co-operate, got it? I thought I already mentioned I'm not gonna hurt you? * Bartender is led back to the bar! "Waaaaaaaaah!" * SpiritRei facepalms. * Chomei facepalms as well. I mean, I'd figure that for a pretty important detail and...