[Day: Thursday, June 16th! Time: 7:00 p.m.] [After spending the night at Mia's home on Smorfilia, you missed the first ferry due to Lazar's sudden decision to meditate. The second didn't come for some reason, which meant you had to catch the 4:00 p.m. ferry. The sun is already setting as you return to the club room. And no, you weren't attacked by a squid monster on the ride back, much as it would have been amusing.] [Session Start] (No Eel either. Yay!) ( Not yet. ) * Peter sits in his chair, and for once is not reading. But for how long? FOR HOW LONG? (;_;) ( Why on earth would I put the eel in the water? :P ) * Lazar is doing his thing with the Slinky. Why? It's soothing. * Maria has taken Peter's book and is flipping through it idly. Which may be why Peter is not reading. [Maria sees pretty words she has no idea how to read.] * Chomei is leaning against the far wall, watching the amusing antics of the MC2 crew. * Maria expected as much, and wrinkles her nose. Maybe it has pictures. ::flipflipflip:: [Maria flips to the page with the spell of ultimate awesomeness. Pity she can't read it.] * Rei hums to herself as she lies on the floor, bare feet in the air, and plays with BOX. Seeing as they came directly here, she still has no shoes. * Lazar Slinkies. "Slinky best invention since nailbat. No question." * Peter drums his fingers and thinks. * Rei grumbles something uncomplementary about nailbats and presses a key with an angry click. Miniature gunshots are heard. We appear to have gotten into quite a pickle. Rei, you might want to call your father and let him know you're okay. * Rei looks up. "Yeah. Actually, I wanna visit Katsu, too." ... we trapped in pickle now? * Maria frowns. "Might wanna tell him about the tail, too. Unless you want to keep it a surprise?" Uh, no. I think that'd be a bad idea. Visiting Katsu's my first priority, though. Since I told him I'm dead and all. * Maria gives up on finding pictures in the ancient tome, and instead goes about carefully balancing it on Peter's head. * Rei presses another button, then sits up and pulls out a phone anyway. Which'd be a bad idea? Telling him about the tail? Keeping it as a surprise. Oh. * Peter grabs the book off his head. "Please don't do that." * Chomei keeps himself from snickering. [The phone rings.] * Maria thinks about that. "Okay, I can see that." * Peter answers the phone. * Chomei is too lazy to answer the phone. * Rei blinks and pulls her finger from the quickdial. ( Peter, I have underestimated you. ) Naomi, hello. What's up? * Rei idly ponders tapping the phone sometime. One-sided conversations are so unreliable. Indeed. * Maria just listens from next to the phone. * Chomei isn't paying attention. ( Shame on Chomei. ) (Not like he could if he wanted to. XD) We do. [This is where Chomei would get hit with a pie if I was feeling sillier and less generous.] (Coconut, banana, or mustard?) * Lazar perks up a bit, stopping his slinkying. (... Pickle?) (Or cucumber?) That doesn't sound good. What's going on? * Peter holds the phone's mouthpiece away from his mouth for a second. "Get the Stone." * Maria blinks, and then does so, holding it out. * Peter holds the phone regular again. * Rei spots the stone, and her eyes go wide. She scoots as far away as possible from Maria... ending up on the other side of the room, actually. * Chomei is paying attention now. * Maria makes "it's okay" motions at Rei. 'Cause it is! Hopefully. * Lazar does the Golem Grunt of Irritation at the stone. * Rei doesn't look particularly reassured. She does snatch BOX over to her corner, though. .. interesting. We have the stone right here. What should we do? * Lazar mutters. "... oh, that never bode well." Can we break it? Huh? Can we? * Rei looks at the stone, then Peter, then the window. * Peter holds the mouthpiece away again for a second. * Maria blinks. Some operatives found out that a number of glyphs had suddenly appeared inside the First Emperor's tomb. This morning, one of them had a premonition involving the stone. And the other one didn't report for work at all. * Peter holds it normal again. * Maria wideyes. "A prem...eh? Oh!" I think we should break it anyway. * Maria nodnods at Rei. * Chomei nods in agreement with Rei. Understood. Should I come alone? Normally I no support break rocks... but here I make exception. ... Damn. Understood. Have travel arrangements been made? * Maria blinks at the phrase 'travel arrangements'. Understood. So what should we do? * Chie walks back into the room, and spies Peter on the phone. "Dammit. Go to the bathroom and I miss everything." The prof beat ya to it. * Maria giggles. Yep. Eoi-sensei would be so disappointed in me... if he knew. Odd things at tomb of first emperor. We probably need investigate. Understood. So when can't go anywhere until then? * Rei keeps eyeing that stone. BOX is on her lap, and she's clutching her tail with one hand. * Lazar nudges Maria, and whispers. "Maybe put stone away?" * Chie looks at the stone, then at Rei, then frowns severely. Understood. I'll fill the team in. Is there anything else? * Maria blinks, then nods and puts it away. * Rei relaxes a little once it's out of sight, but still looks on edge. * Chie eyes Peter curiously, then walks over to the table, pulls out a chair, and sits down. Understood. Call me when everything is ready. * Peter hangs up and turns to face the group. * Maria fidgets, then hops up to the cieling. We have a bit of a situation. What's going on, prof? And when isn't it a situation? ( When it's a crisis. ) * Rei watches Maria hop onto the ceiling, then turns her attention back to Peter. Rei, I need you to sit down and stay calm, understood? Yeah. And what's this about travel plans? What's up? * Chie looks at Peter, worry evident on her face. ( "Rei... We're out of cheese." ) * Rei says shakily, "I'm sitting. I'm calmish." * Peter takes a deep breath. (Noooooo! ;_;) (Yo momma says no!) The operative that went missing is your father. * Rei jerks. "What? My dad's missing?" Her phone is back in her hand and she dials a number fantically. ... * Chie blinks. "What about Eoi-sensei? Was he involved too?" ... oy. Rei, calm down. ... Right. Yes. He had a premonition involving the glyphs. I did not get the details. But he's not missing? They are asking us to go to Shanghai and bring the Rosetta Stone. They want me to examine the Glyphs. Unfortunately, we can't leave yet. * Maria frowns. Until they arrange a secondary team to take over for us, we must remain in Japan. How long's that? At the moment, Japan has become a supernatural hot spot. Leaving now would be too risky. The team should be assembled by tommorow. * Rei listens, ticking something off on her fingers. Five... six... seven... eight... ( We're over a Hellmouth! ) ( If this were the Buffy universe... yeah, basically. ) What, no can get together bunch of people with flamethrowers sooner? Anyway, we have another mission to go on until then. * Chie fidgets. "I'd need to tell Seki-kun to take over the shop for a while..." She looks at Rei and bites her lip. * Chomei takes a deep breath. "Oh boy..." * Peter sighs and looks over at Rei. "Are you okay?" * Rei blinks, looking *this* close to crying. She keeps ticking off on her fingers. * Lazar sighs, wishing Makoto was here. * Peter walks over to Rei and pats her on the shoulder. "Do not worry. We'll find him." ( If only Makoto were here. ;_; Then he could pretend to be Shig and everything would be fine :P ) * Maria hops down and over to Rei and gives her a hug. * Rei jerks at the contact, but removes her phone from her ear. She hangs up and stares at her phone. "I- I have to talk to Katsu." Understood. * Chomei nods. "Do what you have to do." Okay. * Chie nods. "Yeah. We-" She doesn't seem to be able to say any more, and bites her lip again. We have another situation to investigate, but I think we can do that with less people. However Rei, you can not go off alone. * Maria hops back up to the cieling. "I'm sorry, Rei. If you wanan talk to someone about it, I've been t... er, just give me a call." ( Yeah, there's six were-wolves with crowbars right outside waiting for one of you to wander off alone. ) (A were-crowbar...) Lazar, Chomei, Chie, Maria, I'm going to leave this mission up to you again. I'll stay with Rei. And this time. It's the best way to split up without weaking the team. Don't worry, Rei is not going to be spirit walking into any Rosetta stones. (Hey, that my line!) I- uh. Okay. * Chie nods. "All right, prof. I'll do my best." As soon as Rei is done, we will come to help. * Lazar nods. "What mission?" * Chomei cracks his knuckles. "Gotcha prof." Er, okay. * Peter nods. "Maria will be in charge for this mission. All I could get from Naomi is that there is a supernatural situation as Sugiyama Corp's office." (Sugiyama Corp? Yay! ^_^) I don't believe this will be anything major, just something to keep us from running off. However, do be cautious, it could be another plot by Mr. E. * Maria blinks. "I'm in charge?" She grins evily. >:3 * Chie looks up at Maria and half-smiles. "Should we be afraid?" * Peter begins to wonder if he made a mistake. * Lazar eyes Peter for a moment, then grunts. "Any more details?" * Chomei looks at Peter like he's just a little psycho. * Maria giggles. "Nope! But you should bring lots of sacks to carry things out in... kidding! Really!" ( Look at his choices! Who would you have picked? ) (Me! Oh wait.) * Peter eyes Maria. "I'm afraid that is all I could get." I will have my cel phone on. Should anything of note happen, give me a call. Do they know we're comming? * Maria waves. "Don't worry, Prof. I won't steal anything." * Rei just watches. She rubs at her eyes. Yeah. Are they expecting us, or do we have to fib our way in? Since we have a report, one would assume so, yes. However, I can't confirm it. Naomi was very sparse on details. And if anything happen by you, call. (Larger than a house.) Yeah, I'll keep my phone on. (You people use phones more than any campaign ever.) ( Mecha> Shh! ) * Rei blinks. (Except perhaps Arcana.) * Rei opens BOX and types. * Lazar mutters. "Why noone ever have any details? Interpol should spend little money to gather info..." ( Arcana make up through lack of web-searches. ) ( WHAT money? c.c ) (*doesn't comment on that*) ... Oh. Go figure. Figure what? Eh? What's going on? Why Sugiyama's so familiar sounding. It's the family name of the lady I was gonna visit. She's a genetic engineer, or something, and she's the one who identified me as Dad's child. Hm. Oh. I don't like this coincidence. She a friend of your family? ... is everyone in Japan connected to first Mystery Club? Yeah. Actually... Sounds too fishy if you ask me... * Chie grins at Lazar. "I am. * Rei clicks around some more. "She was in Mystery Club twenty years back, with my parents." A supernatural incidence in that office. This is very likly connected to the Udea family. Gather any information you can. And Eoi-sensei. Yeah, this reeks of ungoodness. * Maria nodnodnods. And they ended up saving the world? I don't like the sound of this at all. ( How many times do I have to say it? Naginata-sama saved the world! ) So it probably trap of some sort. What else new? ( I know, I know. You've told me.) ( Naginata this!) ( ...It's Norii! XD ) Anyway. Be cautious. ( They saved the world? I don't trust them... :P ) * Chie lets out a breath. "Oh, we will, prof. We will." ( Oh, God, we're gonna have to go visit Norii's lab. c.c; Chie and Mari need to go buy some iron chastity belts. ) We should hurry. I... um. I'll be there after I talk to Katsu. Okay? (...) * Chie gets up from the table and gives Rei a quick, fierce hug. "Yeah. Take care of yourself." Where is place? Right. * Rei hugs back. Rei, could you give them the address? * Chomei walks to the doorway. * Rei nods and types some more. She pulls out a notepad and jots something down before tossing it to Maria. * Lazar starts to say something to Rei, then pauses for a moment, looks down, and heads out the door. * Maria catches, looks at it, then hands it to Chie, since she's driving. "Thanks." And take care, Rei! * Maria heads out the door! * Chie accepts the notepad. "Off we go." She heads out. * Rei waves. "Bye." She smiles weakly. * Chomei looks back and nods. He heads out. * Peter heads out as well. Be careful. Please. [Meanwhile, y'all go to Sugiyama Corp, located on the top two floors of a 10 story office building. You arrive in the parking lot, one way or another.] [Time: 9:00 p.m.] * Maria hops off Chie's bike! * Lazar hops out of the van. Who drove? Who cares! * Chie gets off the bike and stows her helmet. "Okay, this is the place." * Chomei gets out of the van. "Nice for the prof to lend us the van. Hope he likes Rei's driving though." Okay, here we are. I assume you guy'd rather enter on the ground floor... front door? Front door sound good. Yeah. Most of us have to take the normal route up. [The building is very there.] 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (2d6) and gets 2, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "I love the smell of a crit in the morning." Sure, the front door. ( Oh my. ) ( We're screwed, aren't we? ) ( Ohfuckohfuckohfuck. ) ( Looks that way ^^ ) (Uh? ^^;) (Very screwed. Start making new characters!) * Maria heads for the front door, keeping an eye out for anything supernatural and/or unfriendly! ( "The building is NOT THERE now." ) * Chomei follows Maria, keeping a sharp eye out. * Chie follows Chomei, keeping her senses alert. All six of 'em. * Lazar follows the others, slipping on his demon bracers. Better safe than sorry. [Inside is a lobby. There's a security desk right out front, and two guys there. One looks like your average guard, sitting behind the desk. The other stands in front and is dressed in a police uniform. Doesn't he look familiar?] * Maria sees Touji and turns right around and walks back out. "Wrong building, sorry." * Lazar grabs Maria by the collar, picks her up, and keeps walking in stride. * Chie notices who's there. Oh, this is gonna be fun... * Touji glances from the guard to the group. He straightens his posture and looks at them arrogantly. "Well, well. If it isn't the criminals from before." * Chomei sees the guy. Interesting... * Maria eeps. ;_; Hey! Don't drag them into this! * Lazar tilts his head. "Criminals? We save you from crazy people at hospital." As if I don't remember what happened. Assaulting an officer. I ought to arrest you right here and now. What happened? You get distracted, they knock you out, we cover for you mistake. No, you really oughtn't. * Lazar grins. "You should give us medal or something." * Maria nodnods. "Yeah. Those crazies would've eaten you alive." (Literally!) * Maria fidgets, since she's still being held up by Lazar. * Chie folds her arms. Negotiation is *so* not her strong suit. Please. I know all about you. * Chomei stands back. If you want to ruin a conversation, just ask him. * Lazar blinks, and puts Maria down. "Sorry." *rubs back of neck* I think he in... what word... denial? No, you just think we do. Now. We're here on official buisness, so if you'll excuse us? * Maria heads for the elevator. o/` Oh, official, eh? Officially here to steal something? * Lazar follows. "See what can do about medal, hmm?" * Touji shrugs and lets them walk by. * Chie sticks her hands in her pockets and nonchalantly follows along. * Chomei follows Lazar. * Maria *JAB*s the elevator up button. * Chie whispers to Maria. "Let's get off the elevator two or so floors below where we're going. It might throw them off a little." [The elevator doesn't seem to be coming... o/~] ... ... or we take stairs. Works for me. * Chomei nods. "Stairs." * Maria looks around for the enterance for the stairs. [Maria sees one!] * Maria stalks over to the stairs. * Lazar follows. * Chomei follows along. * Chie follows as well. * Touji makes no move to stop them. * Maria opens the door to the stairs. [No she doesn't. It's locked.] * Maria twitches. Ma'am, after hours, we close down the building to all non-staff. * Chomei sighs. "Great. Now how are we supposed to do our job?" Try the bank. They're used to being robbed. Er, but we're here on official buisness, sir. We're here at the request of Ms. Sugiyama. * Lazar pulls out his badge thingee, and turns to the guard while Maria does her thing. "We Interpol. We called here." That's funny. Ms. Sugiyama didn't mention she was admitting criminals tonight. * Guard exchanges grins with Touji. * Maria twitches again. * Chomei clenches his left fist. * Lazar shrugs, and looks at Maria. "Should I, little one?" * Chie taps her foot. "Perhaps we should call the prof?" Not yet, Lazar. * Maria eyes the guard. "Did she mention anything about expecting the club?" I don't believe so. Did she mention anything at all? Not to me! And would she normally? Well, she did call for us to come help her. Maybe she just didn't think you were worth informing over the matter. Ah well. * Lazar shrugs. "No matter. We Interpol. Let us in." ... Nah. (Nah to which statement?) * Chomei wonders how thick this guard's skull is. ( Ask him :P ) * Chie arches an eyebrow. "So, she normally wouldn't? Then I'm sure it just slipped her mind. Certainly she's a very busy lady." Well, call up and ask. Like you said, she's very busy. It wouldn't do to bother her. * Maria walks over to the man. "Look, I know you must be crushed to be out of the loop and all, but this is really more important than your ego. Or his," she says, gesturing to Touji. "So why don't you just let us in, and then you two can go eat doughnuts or whatever it is incompetent police do in their spare time, mmkay?" But what if she's waiting for us and she simply forgot to inform you? We wouldn't want to keep her waiting. We're competent enough to keep criminals like you from stealing whatever research Ms. Sugiyama might have. * Chie sighs. * Chomei taps his foot. I'm really not in the mood for this tonight. Just call up there. Please. * Maria keeps a smile on her face. "Now now, Lieutenant," she says that like it's a slur. "We're here to help her, at her request." * Lazar eyes Touji. "Did you find anything stolen at morgue, after you wake up?" I bet. You're here to help you at your request. * Maria looks at the guard. "Yes, please. Call her, and then maybe we'll convince her not to have you fired." I'm general security employed by the building, ma'am. Ms. Sugiyama has no power over that. Hmph. Sure she doesn't. * Chie walks over to the guard. "Look. Just call up there. She'll know whether or not we're supposed to be here." Ms. Sugiyama wouldn't want to be disturbed, I'm sure. * Chie looks around the lobby for a directory of some sort. Disturb her anyway. * Chie eyes Touji levelly. "And like I said, if she's really waiting for us, then she's not going to be very happy that *you're* delaying us." * Touji points at Chie and Chomei. "You two can go up. But not Minami or the big lunk." ... and you going to stop us? * Chomei nods. "So she is expecting us. That's what I thought." * Touji eyes Lazar. "Is that a threat?" No. Question. Want know why police officer would interfere in Interpol investigation. Because Interpol employs criminals. That's their buisness, not yours. It is my duty as an officer of the law to make it my business. * Chie sighs. Okay. If we try to go up, what you do? No, it's your duty to keep out of things that don't involve you. I've already told you. Girl with funny hair, goth-boy, you two can go up. The criminals stay here. * Lazar looks at Maria. "Now?" And what if we need them for backup? Then you're obviously here to perform a crime. Okay, you've made it obvious by this point that she *did* ask for us. And if you try to go up, it would be considered breaking-and-entering. Wow. You just don't let go of an idea once your brain takes a hold of it, do you? She didn't, actually. He was being nice. Touji, Touji. If I were here to perform a crime, you wouldn't know it. * Maria grins. ANd if you try stop us, we arrest you for obstruct justice. The hell I wouldn't. I know all about you, Minami. Or should I say "Maria"? * Touji smirks. "You have no authority to do that." No, actually. That's what my friends call me. Have authority of Interpol. All we need. Nobody needs crooked cops like you. * Lazar chuckles. And you wouldn't know it. And you'd continue to not know it until several days after the fact, and that bothers you, doesn't it? It bothers you to know you're worthless? That I'm better than you? Which, of course, is why Interpol hired me instead of yourself. Interpol hired you because they need all the scraps they can get. Look, you got a problem, you can take it up with our superiors. It's not like you don't know who to ask about. For now, let us do what we've been called here to do, okay? You think I don't know about your organization? The U.S. has signifigantly reduced funding to you in favor of their own private organizations, and most of Africa won't even let you in. Tsk, Touji. Just becuase you're not good enough for a promotion doesn't mean you have to be rude. * Touji looks at Chie, "And again I tell you, you and the goth-boy. Not the criminals." * Lazar taptaps Maria. "Now, little one?" * Chie sighs. "You guys? A moment, please?" * Lazar shrugs. * Chomei takes a deep breath. * Chie motions them over to the corner of the lobby. Please, Touji. You have no evidence to back up... eh? Oh. Er, go ahead, Chie. * Maria walks over with Chie. * Chomei nods and walks over there. I have no evidence because your crooked company destroys it all. Which is only further violation of the law. * Lazar follows. * Touji converses with the guard, meanwhile. * Chie eyes Touji and the guard briefly, then says, "Okay, how bad of an idea do you think it would be for Chomei and I to go up by ourselves?" Very bad. * Chomei shrugs. "Very risky, to say the least." Pretty bad. Unless you just did it to convince someone to call down and make them let us up. * Chie exhales. "S'what I thought. I'm not exactly for it myself, but... I wonder how long it'll take for the prof and Rei to get here. Because believe it or not, I'd like to *avoid* violence this time." But I could go do that myself, if it comes to that. * Chie shakes her head. "One of us alone is even worse than two." We could meet her on the top floor? I don't suppose they keep a phone directory anywhere? Prolly at the guard's desk. And he'd be ever so happy to let us see it, of course. 'Course he would, yeah. * Lazar shrugs. "I say we just go up. What silly cop do, shoot us?" (Yes.) * Chie sighs. "Wish we had Rei. And, yes, Laz, he might. Unlike you, we aren't bulletproof, and I'm in no hurry to get shot again. Or arrested." He could call for backup, get us arrested... it's not that simple. Could rip off his arms. Usually work back in Transylvania. No, Laz. Just... no. That would be even worse Laz. * Chomei hmmms... "Think we could kill the lights?" * Chie rubs her forehead. "We could try calling the prof. But I don't really want to rush Rei." ... was joking, little ones. Okay, okay. Chie, Cho. You go up, but at the first sign of trouble, come right back. If you see someone who works there, have them call and let us in. And yes, Laz was joking. * Lazar eyes Maria. "Maybe there back entrance?" ( It's an office building. The only back enterence there'd be is a fire escape. ) (And Lazar's conviently too heavy for it. ^^;) * Maria smirks. "There always is. But that'd just complicate matters. Lieutenant Numbnuts there would probably follow us and then try to get us all arrested for breaking and entering, or something. ( Most office buildings actually have more than one enterance. ;P ) ( Well this one doesn't. ^_^ ) * Lazar sighs. "Okay, then no choice. Be careful, little ones." ( Stupid lousy architect. ;_; ) Chomei? Mind leaving your cell phone with Maria? * Chomei gulps. "Get back at the first sign of trouble. Got it." Oh, right. * Chomei hands Maria his cell-phone. We can call if there's something wrong, along the way from getting out of there. * Chie moves hers to the pocket of her jeans. * Maria nods and takes the phone. In meantime... is illegal to give wedgie to police officer? * Chie snickers. "Sadly, yes. He'd probably count it as assault." ... Japan no fun. Yeah, I know. Hey, I was wondering. If we killed the power, would he be able to see us get in? How would we kill the power, though? * Chomei shrugs. "Maybe Maria would know how? The basement?" There's gotta be a fuse-box somewhere around here. Oh, I could do it. It'd make more problems than it'd solve, tho. Really? Damn. Yes. Like how the rest of us would be able to see. For one thing, we're about to go into a bio-tech lab. Power is critical for a lot of things there. Can't exactly pull out my flashlight... and there's that, of course. ... next time, we need get Naomi to get us warrent. No kidding. You'd think they could at least brief people that we're coming. Yeah, really. ( A forged warrent? :P ) Yeah, we should. Or at least some uniforms. Uniforms? Ick. (It's okay! The uniforms are all black!) * Chomei frowns a little. (Like Chomei's soul!) (Still... conformity. Ick.) (x_x) (... Right.) Should get going soon... (Aww, he doesn't have a black soul. *glomps Chomei*) (Not as far as I know. ^^;) (*falls over*) (^_^_v) * Makoto shoves the doors open and walks rather nonchalantly across the lobby, hands jammed in his pockets. In defiance of all tradition, his tee-shirt is yellow. Everything else is still black or white or gray, though. * Chie exahles. "Right. Wish us... Makoto!" Makoto? * Chie grins. "Hey, where were you?" * Lazar waves. Wish you me? Okay! I wish Chie had her very own Makoto. * Chie snickers. "But Rei would get jealous, wouldn't she?" * Chomei chuckles. There's plenty to go around. What's going on? I heard there was some trouble here... * Maria giggles. * Chie grins. "Uh-huh. The nice officers over there don't want to seem to let Maria and Lazar in. Isn't that sad?" * Chomei rolls his eyes. "Yeah, there's something going on upstairs but jerkoff *points at Touji* over there won't let Maria or Laz up. * Lazar points his thumb at Touji. "Cop have nightstick stuck up behind." " * Maria points at Touji. "Trouble's there." * Makoto nods. Mind if I talk to him real quick-like? Was hopin' you would. Not at all. Go for it. ^_^ * Makoto grins cheekily and walks up to the police officer, straightening his posture and assuming a serious, formal stance and expression before he addresses Touji. "Excuse me officer, could you update me on the situation here?" Situation seems pretty obvious to me, but go ahead. My associates and I were called in to deal with a delicate situation upstairs, and now I understand that some of them are not allowed to proceed past this point? * Touji nods. "Just the criminals, of course." Criminals? * Makoto looks back at his companions. "I just see a handful of Interpol agents trying to serve the community." * Touji nods and points to Maria and Lazar. "I don't know if you know it, but that one has a long record, conveniently overlooked by Interpol. And your other associate has no regard for the law, and is guily of assaulting an officer." Ah, I see. Well, officer, I don't see why those things should hinder their ability to perform their duties. Nobody wants their valuables stolen, and that guy wouldn't think twice about injuring a civilian. * Lazar mutters. "That no true... I think at least three times..." * Chie counts on her fingers. "I think that's right, Laz." * Chomei smirks. Really, he ain't even human. He's some kind of stone freak. (You'd be surprised how many of them are. XD) * Chie snickers. "And since when was *that* a problem? This guy's too damned narrow-minded." Okay, fine. I would like to go on record as stating that you are in obstruction of Interpol duties. I respect that you have the jurisdiction here, as long as you can prove your authority as a law enforcement officer, and the outstanding warrants for my associates' arrests or restraining orders? * Chomei doesn't comment on Chie's remark. * Maria giggles. Then for the record, what I am obstructing is their malicious intent. And no, I have no warrent, and I am doing no wrong. They do not have access to the offices at this time. The others are being granted a privlege to go up there, not a right. Understood. If you'll excuse me for a moment, officer? * Touji nods. * Makoto walks back to the others. "No dice, guys. We're either gonna have to split up, or not go in at all." I could try being a bit more convincing, though. * Makoto grins again. I'll need Lazar's help. * Maria sighs. "Well, at least there's three of you, now... can you turn into something big enough to eat him?" I'd rather not have to split up, but if that's the only way... I say you should be more convincing. *grin* Just tell me what need me to do. * Chomei nods. "More convincing is better." * Makoto shakes his head at Maria and lowers his voice. "Maria, you can always climb up the outside walls, right? And Lazar, I think you're going to have to apologize to the guy. You know, heat of the moment, acted on instinct, never happen again, very sorry, upstanding citizen..." * Maria grins. "This should be interesting." * Lazar frowns. "Do I have to?" I'm afraid you do, big guy. He... ah... feels pretty strongly about it. You don't want to make us go up there all by our lonesome, do you, Laz? Okay, okay. * Maria frowns. "Y'think I should?" Absolutely. He doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with you, ever. Man, what'd you do to that guy? * Maria nods. "True. And I'd just as soon not have to do anything with him, either. So, I'll go get started now, hm? Can you make up an excuse for my leaving? Say HQ recalled me in light of the circumstances? * Makoto nods. "Will do." * Maria grins. "All I ever did was elude him." Hey, look, it's Maria, the artful dodger. Like I said to his face earlier, he's just mad 'cause he can't catch me. But, nevermind. I'm headed out. * Maria storms back out the front entrance, looking angry and disappointed. * Touji watches her go and smirks. * Makoto walks back to Touji. * Touji then turns his attention the the rest of ya and folds his arms. Interpol has recalled her, in light of the situation. I'm sorry to have inconvenienced you. Well, that's all the better. Now I don't have to explain to Ms. Sugiyama why her possessions went missing. * Lazar follows Makoto, doing his best to look abashed. (And failing miserably.) Furthermore, my associate here, Lazar, has something he'd like to say to you. ...Well? * Lazar shakes his head. "Interpol recruit me because I good I what I do. Have problem though... very bad temper. I working on it, but sometimes... I slip. So..." * Lazar bows. "I sorry. Let temper get best of me, did something very stupid. Father was police, would beat me to pulp if knew what I did." That was pretty stupid. Assaulting an officer is a serious crime. I should have you arrested, but I'll be nice and let you off the hook. I'm feeling generous now that I don't have to deal with that goddamned criminal. ... thank you. I promise, it no happen again. I have temper under control now. * Lazar forces a smile. No temper, no temper, no temper... * Makoto smiles gently and waves the others forward. Good. * Chomei nods. He comes forward. See that it doesn't. * Chie smiles brightly. "Thank you for your generosity, officer. Let's go, guys." Thank you very much for your cooperation, officer. May Lazar accompany us? I assure you that his behaviour will be exemplary from this point forward. * Guard looks up to Touji, who nods to him. He shrugs and taps a few buttons. He may, but if I hear anything about how he attacked any civillians, I'll arrest him on the spot. Is fair. [Ze Eleva-tor, she komes!] * Lazar heads for the elevator. * Makoto nods. Thanks again, officer. [The elevator is designed to cram 25 people in during lunch. Thus, it does not collapse under Lazar's weight.] * Chie hops on the elevator. * Chomei walks onto the elevator. (Assuming that the doors are open and all.) * Makoto gets into the elevator, too. Whee! [The elevator goes up before you can push the button. Well, not really, but I'm skipping that part.] * Chie waits until the doors are closed and the elevator is on its way before scowling. "Ugh, that was painful. Thanks, Makoto." * Lazar gets in, and once the doors close... Ugh. I feel dirty now. Yeah. Let's get this over with. * Makoto smiles cheerily. "Glad I could help you all spread deceit and falsehood. So... what the ~hell~ are we doing here?" No clue. Something odd on eighth floor. You know as much as us. Something's up, we're supposed to find out. Oh, some sort of supernatural disturbance in the Sugiyama Corporation offices. Apparently, they're headed by a friend of Rei's family, who's a genetic engineer. So, possible connection to... things. Or maybe a coincidence. I'm beginning to doubt that there are any coincidences, though. Wow. Rei's family does everything. (She isn't related to me. Might shoot herself if she was.) Never seems to be any in our line of work, does there? ( Amen. ) Family friend, Makoto. Not a relative. And Rei father go missing, too. Connections are connections. [The elevator stops and the doors open, revealing a small, expensive- looking office. Maria is just climbing in through the window on the far left wall. To the right, through an open door, is somekinda lab. As you're taking all this in, a gunshot rings out.] Although a close enough friend can be more family than your relatives... * Norii skids backwards into sight around a corner as MC piles out of the elevator. She's spraying an uzi wildly back into the corridor she came from, and screaming over a cell phone on the other. (Yay, Norii!) Uh. ... that our cue. * Norii has put on a kilo or three since her years in college, and has her hair drawn up in a severe bun, but is still cure behind those big glasses. * Chomei nods and summons his bow. * Chie draws her sword. Keiji, I'm telling you, get over here right now! Yes! And bring your bro- ( Wai! Norii! ) * Lazar waves at the woman. "Someone call plumber?" * Makoto just sort of stares. * Norii throws herself on the floor, and a nearly-visible cloud of buckshot blurs above her. * Maria peaks her head in. "Anno... you called for the Mystery club?" ... * Norii looks up. *to phone* Never mind, different cavalry showed up. * Lazar palms his pendant, dismissing the illusion that covers his golem form. "Who attacking?" * Norii hangs up and rolls to cover. * Maria gets in through the window. "Hi, sorry we're late. Police held us up. What the hell was he doing here, anyway?" ... Bullets are flying, I'm hiding. You're the new Mystery Club? * Chomei nods. * Makoto looks around for something to hide behind. Like Lazar. Yeah. Hi. Sugiyama-san, I presume? Nifty. HELP! Most of it, yeah. * Lazar shrugs, and tries to figure out what's shooting at the nice lady. * Chomei looks around for the threat. * Maria tries to spot what the nice crazy uzi-weilding lady was hosing lead at. I don't know what they are, but they seem to want something in the lab. [Coming around the corner are two figures. The first looks like a humanoid pterradactyl, holding what looks like a cross between a shotgun and a machinegun. He's wearing a business suit and looks generally evil. He must be a badguy.] [The other one is Homestar Runner.] ( Roll init ^^ ) 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 9. d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (d6+8) and gets 11. * Makoto surreptitiously eyes Norii while he's hiding, judging the cutefactor. d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Makoto (d6+7) and gets 8. d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (d6+7) and gets 8. ( .... Homestar. *kills Brett* ) * Norii can still do cute, though she's aged to a more sedate "beautiful". ...what the hell are those? My question exactly. d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Norii (d6+8) and gets 10. * Makoto is suitably appreciative. ( Okay. Someone needs to cast 'summon StrongBad.' ) * Makoto hasn't even noticed the bad guys; they always come in after girls in order of importance. ( Hee. Homestar. ) (So, we're fighting a giant phallus with legs?) (Yes.) ( And a beanie. ) * Norii tucks away the Uzi and pulls a strangely-modded pistol out of a rear holster under her labcoat. ( And a t-shirt. ) ( Oh, the pterradactyl doesn't have wings, either. ) [Chie, Homestar, Chomei, Norii, Pterradactyl, Lazar, Makoto, Maria!] [Chie's turn!] (Everybody! Do-dah-de-doh!) * Chie peeks out from behind Lazar and whispers something. Her sword begins to glow with a silvery light. She points it at the pterodactyl-thing and yells. "Spirit Stream!" The light shoots from her sword towards the pterodactyl and... 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6) and gets 3. [The stream hits the paranomal right on, and forces him to step back a bit.] [Homestar's turn!] * Chie grins. "Hey... I did it! It really worked!" d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d6) and gets 1. * Chomei blinks. "Nice trick." Shiny. * Maria grins. "Nice." * Homestar grins at Chie and yells, "'Toons!" A shirtless guy in a red mask and wearing boxing gloves appears out of nowhere and punches at her. (Wai! Strong Bad! And, uh, what do I roll?) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6) and gets 6. (Toons! Games! I'm gonna check my E-mail!) [Chie gets punched and yells, "Douglass!". Then the guy in red goes away.] ( The system... is down. ) [Chomei's turn!] ...what the hell did I just say? ( Doo doo doo doon doo! ) Douglass? Ya got me. * Maria blinks. Dogurassu? * Chomei gets around Lazar and manages to get a line of sight to the Pterradactyl. He pulls the bowstring tight and Rownal cackles with electricity. He fires at his target, the electricity trailing after the arrow. ( I could decide whether to have a serious villian or a silly one tonight. So I had both. ) 2d-2 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-2) and gets 7. d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (d6+6) and gets 10. * Pterradactylman ducks behind the desk, and the arrow strikes the wall behind. [Norii's turn!] Stand still! * Norii hesitates momentarily, wondering whether to worry more about the toon or the autoshotgun, then levels the pistol at beak-guy. She wants to be the guy - er, girl - with the gun here. ( Aiyah... Not that I blame you. ) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Norii (2d6-3) and gets 1. ( Focused fire: it's how battles are won. ) d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Peter (d6+6) and gets 8. [Norii shoots him in the shoulder. He's not looking too healthy.] [But it's his turn!] ( Heh. You shoulda seen the Dragonstar game earlier. @_@ ) (Heh! *vampire moves* *Vampire gets wasted by 4 characters pumping him full of heat, electricity, bullets, and explosive rounds.*) ( THe whole group snuck up on a vampire. By the end of the turn, the vampire realized there were about half a dozen laser sights focused on him. Next turn was slaughter. ) * Pterradactylman ignores Norii for now and fires at the compacted newcomers. His weapon appears to be a rapidfire shotgun. 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6+1) and gets 8. ( Makoto is very much behind Lazar, cowering like a wee babe. ) 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6+1) and gets 6. 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-1) and gets 4. (Beltfed shotgun = pain!) ( Let's hear it for the street-sweeper, folks. ) [Chomei dives out of the way as the rapid-fire shotgun fires, missing him by a hares-breadth. Lazar and Chie aren't so lucky, both taking all three bursts. Lazar gets a small dent in his chest, while Chie goes down, unconscious.] (Oh, Chie. You just had to show off your new attack, didn't you. You couldn't have stayed behind Lazar, could you?) * Chie collapses. Yay for showing off! x_x * Maria blinks. "Chie!" [Lazar's turn!] ( Don't worry, Chie! I shall avenge you! ) * Chomei rolls up and sees Chie. "Okay, that does it. You're going down NOW." * Lazar eyes Chie, roars with rage, then tries to grab the pterradactyl guy and defenestrate him. Not through the window Maria's in, mind you. (Golem Rage) ( And let me tell you, getting shot by a shotgun hurts.) 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-3) and gets 3. ( And Chelsea only got shot by one burst :P ) Laz! Get the marshmallow! I'll take care of the lizard-thing!... or not. (Death by defenestration!) ( A critical hit at point-blank range, thanks. ;P ) Or... That could happen. [Lazar picks the guy up and tosses him out the window. You can hear him screaming all the way down, then... *thud*] [Makoto's turn] Right. Nice job, Laz. ...although I feel sorry for whoever has to clean it up. ( I don't. They get the kickass gun :P ) * Lazar growls. "Nobody hurt little ones. NOBODY." (If it's not in pieces by the time it hits the ground.) * Makoto blinks and looks around--no more golem for cover, Chie unconscious on the ground, no weapon at the ready--and quickly covers the distace to Chie's side. "Chie!" He's no medic, but he checks to make sure she's still alive anyway. [Maria's turn!] * Maria growls and leaps at Homestar, kicking at it's... uh, strangely indiscenrable anatomy. 2d6-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-5) and gets 0. [Maria kicks him directly on that star on his shirt. He wobbles like taffy.] [The elevator doors open, and Peter and Rei arrive! New order: Homestar, Chomei, Norii, Rei, Lazar, Makoto, Maria, Peter] [Homestar's turn!] * Rei steps out. "Hi guys! Hope you weren't having too much fun without- shit, Chie!" * Maria blinks, then looks over at Rei and Peter. "Look after Chie!" We'll take care of the psycho. (Games!) * Homestar yells happily, "Games!" And there's a flash of light. Then suddenly there's a dragon almost too big for the room. Its eyes are floating above its head, and while its feet and wings are itty bitty, it's got a big beefy arm on the back of its neck.] (... Oh god NO.) (Run, Rei!) (... I'm going to be eaten.) (*dives out the window*) * Rei stares. [New order: Homestar, Chomei, Norii, Rei, Lazar, Trogdor, Makoto, Maria, Peter] ...what the fuck? ( Squish peasants! ) [Chomei's turn!] (The BURNiNATOR!) * Norii wiggles her eyebrows, amused. ( Norii's seen it all before :P ) (She sure has!) (Yep.) * Chomei aims at Homestar and looses an ice arrow at it. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-2) and gets 10, a CRITICAL FAILURE!!! "Some things just aren't meant to be." (CHOMEI'S ARROWS ARE LAME!) (... DAMN.) ( Oh dear. ) ... now that I never see in Transylvania. ( Good job, Wet Shorts. ) [Chomei's arrow misses Homestar, ricochets off the wall, and flies at...] d7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d7) and gets 7. (I'm going to be frozen and then he'll thaw me and eat me!) * Maria looks at Norii. "Just what have you been DOING in here?" 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6) and gets 8. * Norii grins. This isn't one of mine, trust me. [Rei is frozen solid in a block of ice.] Shit! Not again! ...SHIT! ( Wow. Rei can't win. ) (Neither can Chomei, apparently.) [Norii's turn!] ( WHee. I wonder how cold, wet, and angry Rei will be when you thaw her out. :P ) ... at least it no electricity. * Norii focuses on the... thing. Maybe if she blows him up good the dragon will go bye-bye. ( Very? ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Norii (2d6-2) and gets 4. [A bag of marshmellows pops up in front of Homestar and takes the bullet!] ( Hey, I didn't know those arrows could riccochet!) [Lazar's turn!] ... ... Right. * Lazar throws a straight punch at Homestar. "Go away, strange penis-like thing." 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-3) and gets -1, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "A WINNER IS YOU!" (... heh heh heh...) (Um... ouch?) ( Wow. Laz is on fire! ) [Hooo... Lazar knocks Homestar back into the wall. A picture falls and breaks over his head, leaving him with a new collar. But he's still up.] [Makoto's turn!] * Makoto hops up to his feet and takes a few lunging steps across the room. His yo-yo is out and swinging in a swift, horizontal arc a good distance out in front of Makoto and right at Homestar. Yo-yo's got reach, boyee. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Makoto (2d6-2) and gets 6. [Crack! Makoto wallops Homestar] [Maria's turn!] * Maria leaps at Homestar, delivering a kick to the, uh, face? 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-4) and gets 8, a CRITICAL FAILURE!!! "I can recommend some good Dice Cleanser, if you like." (...) ( ... ) ( ... ) ( Nice knowing you, guys. ) (Well shit.) [Maria's kick hits Homestar in the face and... her foot kinda sinks in. Unable to get it back out, she falls on her back.] Aaaah! [Peter's turn!] [Homestar's turn!] d7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Homestar (d7) and gets 3. * Homestar beams at Makoto and says around Maria's foot. "E-mail!" Makoto, gimme an awareness check * Maria squirms. "What the hell does e-mail have to do with anything? Why won't you SHUT UP?" 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Makoto (2d6) and gets 6. [Makoto looks up in time to see a bowling ball shaped like planet earth (if the continents were shaped like fish) falling towards him. Makoto, Ranged defense, -2 bonus!] 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Makoto (2d6-2) and gets 6. [Makoto manages to move so that his head doesn't get hit, but the ball lands on his foot instead.] Nngk! [Chomei's turn!] * Chomei charges an arrow with energy and shoots it at Homestar. "Will it just shut up?!" 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-2) and gets 1. [Chomei shoots it, managing not to hit Maria's foot. Homestar not has an arrow sticking out of his shoulder.] [Norii's turn!] * Norii shoot shoot shoots at Homestar! And wonders what the big 'ol dragon is waiting for. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Norii (2d6-3) and gets 4. [Homestar evaporates, freeing Maria's foot. And Trogdor vanishes, too.] * Norii smirks. The old lady still has it. ... how is Chie? And Rei? And foot of Makoto? * Peter goes to check on the wounded. * Chomei runs to Chie, checking her pulse. * Rei is frozen in ice, staring in shock at... well, where the arrow was coming at her. (Again, I remain un-scathed...) * Makoto winces and shakes his foot very slowly and gingerly. Ow. * Maria falls on her butt. She gets up and looks at Norii. "...what were those?" * Norii walks over and taptaptaps on the ice. I'll be fine, I think. I'll just be limping for a while. How's Chie? What were what? The things what were trying to kill you! And is there something we should be doing for poor Rei here? * Rei doesn't move. Frozen smorfy in ice. She's alive, but I think another trip to the hospital. is in order. Oh, those? No clue. Rei? When did Rei get h-- Oh. Need blankets. Or hair dryer. * Peter frowns. * Makoto limps over to the Reicube. Damn. When did that happen? I have a heat gun back in the mechanical lab. That might work. Chomei misfire. And go get it. And bring blanket if have. That works. * Chomei touches the ice. "I've never seen an arrow reflect like that before..." What about Chie? * Norii quickly delvers a heat gun and a some thermal sheeting. She's kind of... y'know, shot. A bunch. * Chomei nods. * Chomei walks back to Chie and picks her up. "We gotta get to a hospital now. Mind driving prof?" Anyway, I just came up to check on an experiment, and these two were pawing at my server. I wonder if she's stopped aging. Like those frogs that get frozen in lakes during winter. Mm? Server? Like, computer server? * Makoto looks over at Norii. Less worry about server, more melt little one. The one I store all my sequencing data on - I have all sorts of nifty genes mapped from lots of creatures, natural... and supernatural. * Norii winks. ...which reminds me. (Chomei just wants to get out of there before Rei kicks his ass.) * Norii grabs a sterile test tube and scoops up some of Pteraguy's blood. Oh, and tell Rei that I'm really damn sorry. * Makoto grins. And not to kill me. I do that if someone use stupid heat gun already! So you kids are Mystery Club these days? * Maria takes the heat ray thing and starts melting Rei out of the ReiCube. I don't think kid applies to me anymore, but yes, we are. Com'on prof. We don't have all night to get Chie to the hospital. If you don't drive I'll take her myself! *sigh* Those were fun times. Stressful as all hell, but fun. * Peter nods and goes to help with hospital stuff! * Lazar rubs the large dent in his chest where the shotgun blast hit him. * Chomei heads out with the prof. * Makoto nods and looks toward the elevator, where people are going when they leave. It's still stressful, I think. ( Don't blame me. Blame Ard. She said I should use Homestar :P ) (And painful. x_x) * Rei is melted out of the cube and collapses weakly onto the ground, shivering. She don't look so good. * Maria sings the melting a friend out of a block of ice song. (No, I said you *could* use Homestar.) * Maria doesn't really do that. (Well, I suggested Trogdor, but that never really came into play. ^^;) * Lazar wraps Rei in the thermal blanket thingee. "Is okay, little one. Just bit of chill." Hey, Rei! Rei gets in trouble a lot, and it's usually not her fault. * Rei eyes Lazar for a moment, then asks, "Ch- Ch- Ch- Chomei?" She focuses on Norii and smiles weakly. "H- hi." * Lazar nods. "Chomei miss. Badly." Rei? You okay? ...no, nevermind. I really gotta stop asking that. * Rei looks around. "Where i- i- is he?" Need hot drink or something? (Don't hurt me!) * Rei nods, just a little. She wraps herself some more. [Session End]