[Day: Sunday, June 19th. Time: 11:00 a.m.] [Yesterday, you rescued Shigeru from the cluthes of the New Yellow Turbans. And the ghosts of some of the old Yellow Turbans. In gratitude, he found you a hotel where you could spend the night, because by the time you got back it was too late to do anything anyway. Probably.] [Anyhow, Makoto wandered off somewhere in the middle of the night and hasn't been seen since. Good? Bad? Probably. You gather at the office, 'cause there's no clubroom. Shig and Eoi are there. Yay!] [Session Start] * Rei bursts in, waving cheerily. "Hi! Good morning! You're both awake! Do you wake up that early much?" * Chie follows Rei in, a bit more sedately. "It's too early to be up. But mornin', Eoi-sensei, Mr. Ueda." * Maria comes in and sits on the wall. She probably slept on the sofa, if the hotel rooms had one. She rubs her face and mutters something about mornings. * Peter stands with a book and misses his seat. * Chomei yawns as he enters the room. "'Morning everyone." * Shigeru rubs his temples from his desk. "Rei, what did I tell you about being a morning person?" Don't be one. Oh yeah. * Chie laughs. "I *like* your dad, Rei." * Eoi leans against a wall, playing with a customized Kirboy. Read, a Kirboy with a naginata sticker. * Lazar lumbers into the room quietly, finding a place to stand off to one side. * Chomei finds a nice empty spot on the wall, and leans against it. * Rei sticks her tongue out at Chie. "Well, you can. He's all grumpy. Kinda like the prof, but I love him anyway." * Shigeru rolls his eyes and goes back to typing at the puter. * Maria giggles at the interplay between Rei and ReiDad. * Chie grins at Rei. * Peter walks over to Shigeru. "What is going on?" Nothing yet. It's too early for bizarre supernatural occurances. Or it should be. Whenever you're ready, though, we can go to that tomb- * Shigeru pauses, then looks around. "Where's the shifter? Makoto." They have a schedule? That's nice. ^_^ He tends to vanish at will. it's an annoying habit of his. ( He shifted too much and got permanent shifty-eyes and had to go see an eye doctor to doctor them up. ) Or maybe you're really the shapeshifter, huh. I bet that's it. (I thought Chomei had shifty eyes.) * Chomei looks up, then glances around. He doesn't look surprised at all that Makoto's gone. Come on. Nobody human is as stuffy as you. Nahh, Eoi-sensei, the prof's the prof. And he is. Trust us on that. * Eoi groans. "Stupid Waddle Dee killed me again." Well, if ya say so. Do you ever stop playing that, Eoi? * Peter rolls his eyes. * Maria blinks. "Stupid what?" Sure I do. When I'm polishing my Naginata. Not like there's much else I can do 'round here. You're bored without me around, aren't you? * Chie grins. * Maria smirks. Naw. Just with all the research stuff. Shiggy tells me what ta hit, and I hit it. It's a good arrangement. * Chie laughs. "Yeah, sounds right up your alley." Heh. Right. Does he give you a biscuit every time you do? And if he does, are they good? ( ...no, he doesn't! Shig, have you been gypping me outta biscuits? ) (*snerk*) * Eoi walks over and rub's Rei's head. "Cute, very cute. Besides, we all know that I don't like biscuits. He buys me pizza." * Chomei chuckles. * Rei laughs. "HEY! That's my hair you're messin' with!" * Eoi rubs with both hands. "Oh no! The big bad Rei's gonna get me!" * Maria giggles. Don't worry, Rei, I'll save you! * Rei wails and flails and eventually barrels into Eoi. ...or maybe not. Oof. * Shigeru looks up, a smile on his face. "She gotcha." * Eoi exaggerates and falls over, laughing. "That she did. You been practicing Naginata-fu or somethin' Rei?" I'll have to remember that move if we ever spar again. She did! The Naginata, taken down by Rei! * Chie grins. Remind me not to rub Rei's hair. Oh, my poor reputation! * Rei stands over Eoi and powerposes, one foot on his chest. "I am victorious! 'Cause I rule. Oh yeah, go me." She does a victory dance. * Chie walks over, stands on tiptoe and ruffles Chomei's hair. "Okay." She grins madly. * Peter facepalms and shakes his head. Oof. Watch it with the feet kiddo. ( Dada dadaa da da dada daaaaaa! ) * Rei watches her feet as she does the victory dance. * Chomei doesn't seem to care... much. He looks at Chie. "You want me to rub your hair now?" You gotta reach me first! * Chie ducks and runs behind Rei and the rather prone Eoi. * Eoi tries to get up. * Rei gets off of Eoi. * Chomei scratches his head. "Ya still didn't answer my question." He grins. * Chie helps Eoi up. * Eoi gets up. "Just you wait, Rei. One day, when you're least suspecting it.. REVENGE!" * Lazar eyes the goings on semi-bemusedly. Thanks Chie. * Peter begins to wonder if everyone who knows this family is insane. Says you. Only a fool promises vengeance upon the great Rei Ueda. No problem, Eoi-sensei. By the way... when you've got some time, there's some stuff I want to talk with you about. But it can wait. Y'want I should watcher back, Rei? I'll offer you a discount since you're a friend. * Chie looks back at Chomei. "I'll leave that to you to decide." She winks. * Shigeru snerks as he thinks to Peter, ~Depends on your definition of insanity.~ Of course, who else but me would do it? * Peter jumps. ~Oh dear. I should have remembered that.~ * Shigeru continues typing. ~You were just thinking loudly, that's all.~ He presses a key. "Ready to go?" Go? Where're we goin', Mr. Ueda? Sure! Indeed. 'bout time. * Lazar utters the Golem Grunt of Having Achieved A State of Readiness. * Chomei looks up. "Oh, go somewhere? Alright." So, uhm. Let's go? I'll meet you guys in the parking lot, I guess. ^_^ * Maria hops down from the wall and heads out! The tomb. It's what we need you here for, assuming you brought that stone. * Chie frowns. "Oh. Yeah. That." * Peter nods and pulls out the stone. "Yes, we do." * Rei cringes away from the stone. Can you put that thing away, Prof? * Shigeru glances at his daughter's reaction, then nods. "Better put that away." He gets to his feet and walks over to Rei, putting a hand on her shoulder. * Chomei looks at the stone. "What are you doing with it?" * Peter nods and puts it away. * Rei blinks. "I'm okay. I'm okay! I'll just be in the van. Road trip again!" She vrooms out. ( Mix it into tea and drinks it. ) I see she's as energetic as ever. ( I am getting rid of Rei, once and for all! ) * Shigeru frowns. "Yeah." * Lazar lumbers down the stairs towards the van. Let's go. * Chie leaves. * Chomei shrugs. "Let's." He catches up to Chie and rubs her hair. Wah! * Chie grins. "Ohh, you're gonna get it for that. You really are." * Shigeru shrugs on a trenchcoat, grabs a small sword and his computer, and goes. * Chomei smiles back. "Oh really? What am I gonna get?" Wait and see, wait and see... * Peter heads for the van. * Eoi heads for his motorcycle! ( The prospect of Lazar getting stuck sitting next to Shigeru is somewhat amusing. =P ) (He's not taking the van, anyhow, so you don't need to worry about it. ;P) ( I wanna ride with Eoi-sensei. I miss my bike. ;_;) ( Hello.. LAZAR. shitshitshitshitshitangstangstangst. ) (*cracks up*) (*laughs*) (*chuckles.*) ( Har! ) [And so they head to the tomb of Shi Huang Di, nearby Xi'an. I think. My Chinese geography isn't that great. Wherever the tomb is, though, you're there, presumably parking in the parking lot. Normally, they give tours here, but the tomb is closed to tourists.] [You're outside the tomb, and have a bit of a walk up the mountainside before you get to the entrence.] This should be fun. Loads. Just like last time. * Chie starts hiking upt the mountain. "What happened last time?" * Eoi pats Peter on the back. "Don't faint old man!" Eoi is older, and shouldn't talk. Don't tell him, you'll hurt his feelings. (*cracks up*) * Peter eyes Eoi and starts walking up. ( *SNRKS* ) * Chie raises an eyebrow. "Old man, Eoi-sensei?" She laughs. * Rei rolls her eyes. "Why're you pickin' on the prof so much? And he's really not- yeah, that!" Yeah, well. Maybe if he wasn't so stuffy. * Lazar walkwalks up the mountain with the others, staying towards the front of the group. ( It IS Xi'an! I was right! Yay! ) * Chomei starts walkin' up. I mean, it's my job to pick on the prof! You're stealing my job! I'll sue! I'll sue your PANTS off! * Maria gawks in awe of the open land. You'd think she'd never seen grass before. * Eoi grins at Rei. "Just tryin' to get him to loosen up. He's like Saki only not as scary." You forgot PAID Rei. A lot less scary. I wonder how she's doing. * Chie cracks up. "Not his pants, Rei. I'd hate to see what he'd do without pants. And who's Saki?" Yeah. I'll sue your PANTS off because I PAID you not to take my job! I PAID you! * Maria blinks and giggles. "But he PAID for those pants! PAID for them!" * Maria stamps her foot in mock-anger. * Chomei chuckles. * Eoi eyes Rei. "Wow. That sounds terrifyingly familar." What, did he say he paid you to get rid of ghosts, too? * Maria frowns. "And did the ghosts get food all over you?" * Chie blinks. "Wait... he said twenty years, right?" Oh my god... it probably *was* the same guy! * Chie cracks up. Aw god, that guy is still alive? I was hoping he exploded or something. Not anymore. I took care of that. * Eoi eyes Chomei. "You.. killed 'em?" He wasn't exactly alive anymore when we got there, and... yeah. He turned into some sort of weird skeleton monster, Eoi-sensei. Ah, okay. He was possessing all our phones. Darn, you guys get all the luck. * Maria giggles. And I really wasn't about to exorcise a phone system. We had to deal with him when he was .. well, normal. [After some walking, you get to the entrence of the tomb, where you see two security guards patrolling.] Damn, that's gotta suck. Can't get rid of him when he's like that. He used to be normal? Well, as normal as that guy can get. * Peter looks at Shigeru. "So, do we just go in?" * Chie shakes her head. "It was crazy. House fulla ghosts and disco." The disco part was fun, though. * Chomei smirks. "You'd think so." Chie would too. Hey, you can dance, Chomei. * Chie grins madly. * Shigeru nods at Peter, then walks up to the guards. No, I can't. Sure fooled me, then. * Lazar mutters. "And this is cue for stupid police guy to show up..." I fooled me. (Don't give Brett ideas!) [The guards approach the group when they spot you, and one says in Chinese, <"Excuse me, but this is a restricted area. Didn't you see the sign?">] Aw no, you just jynxed yourself Stone McRockabs. * Maria bristles. "He's better not be here!" That would be scary. That'd be scary and wrong. * Peter follows along. * Lazar blinks at Eoi. "Stone Mchuh?" * Maria grins. "He'd be WAY! out of his jurisdiction, tho..." * Chie decides that Mr. Ueda or the prof would be better off handling the negotiations with the guards. You heard me, Chip Ofdaoldblok. * Chomei shakes his head. "I hope we wouldn't be seeing a depansing." A what? * Lazar blinks s'more. "Chie, is you sensei speaking Japanese?" I believe he's speaking his own language, Laz. Just do what I do and stare at him until he stops. * Chomei blinks at Chie. "I'm surprised you don't know what that term is." * Eoi grins at Chie. "Gosh, that explains so much." * Shigeru nods, responding in the same language as he pulls out the shiny interpol badge and flashes it. "" * Maria blinks at Chomei. "A what?" * Lazar shrugs and stares at Eoi. * Chie grins back at Eoi, then turns to Chomei. "Um. Yeah. What is it?" * Eoi sticks his tounge out at Lazar and walks up to join Shig and the Stuffy. * Rei chills nearby. She's cool, yo. * Maria is down wit dat. Think about it. De means to um... undo something, right? You know what pants are, so... Ya stick them together and you got depants. And then depansing would be doing that to someone... For humiliation purposes, of course." (And yes, he's mis-pronouncing it.) * Lazar ignores Eoi. "Is opposite of wedgie, no?" Yeah. * Chie laughs. "Ahh, okay." So, no suing off of pants. Got it. * Maria giggles. [The guard blinks and looks at his partner. "Another one?" The other guard shrugs, and the first turns back. "Okay, go in, but be careful not to damage anything."] * Maria blinks at the "another one" bit. * Shigeru nods. "" He waves for the others to follow him and walks in. * Lazar follows. * Maria follows the Shigster. * Chie follows in. * Chomei follows Mr. Ueda. * Peter follows along. * Eoi does too. * Shigeru leads the way. He thinks to Eoi, ~Do you know about anyone else sent here?~ * Rei glances back. "Another one? What the hell." ~Not a thing Shigbo.~ Yeah. What'd they mean by "another one"? * Chomei scratches head. "They said another person had been here?" I dunno. Can't be good. * Rei eyes Chomei. "You're clueless and lame. Leave now." Someone else was here earlier. Maybe we'll get lucky and find him. ...y'don't suppose it's whatsis face? The wannabe Russian? Maybe it mean we walking into trap. Again. * Shigeru hrms. "Could be Russian. He had an accent." I *hope* not. I fail to be surprised. Of course it means we're walking into a trap, Laz. Um... Dimitri? Yeah, him! Dimbulb. Great. Just what we need. *Those* guys. Good. We still haven't kicked his ass for taking Rei's computer. * Maria nodnods. [Inside is a large, LARGE cave, very wide and very long. You walk out onto a catwalk, with arrows painted on the wall (must be to tell the tours where to go). Below, on the stone floor, is an army. There's four divisions of about 100 soldiers each. They're made entirely of terracotta, and are surrounded by bannisters to keep people from touching them.] And for having silly accent. Everyone know Hungarian accent much cooler than Russian. Absoulutely, Laz. * Chomei nods. "Very true." [An ancient army, I should note: wearing Chinese armor and carrying ancient Chinese weapons.] * Rei peers. "They should put them in business suits. That's much more intimidating." * Chie looks down at the stone army. "Awesome!" ...woooow! I like these guys. They have cool swords. * Lazar looks down. "Bah. We make better stone guys in Transylvania." I wonder if they're valuable. And who built them all, anyway? * Chie sticks her tongue out at Eoi. .. Amazing. ( If anyone's curious: http://helicop.de/Home/China/armee1.jpg is a picture of a part of it ) Simply not enough Naginatas. * Chie chuckles. "Knew you'd say that." It really is. * Chomei looks down and blinks a few times. "I've heard of it, but... that's pretty cool." Of course, if I had said "Man, those swords rule, Naginatas suck." You'd hurt me and say I was a doppleganger. Nahh, Makoto's not here. I'd probably just slap a ward on you. 'S cool. Do they break easily? Can we carry a few out? Are you sure Makoto isn't here? Maybe he's Eoi in disguise. It's just the kind of thing he would do! No. [There's some stairs leading down to the floor where the army is, and a helpful sign right next to that explaining the army.] I mean, who carve armor onto stone warrior? It no offer more protection than stone skin... and no runes on forehead? Bah. * Shigeru keeps leading, down the stairs. Aww, hush up Rock McChisled. Yeah, they got the whole golem bit all off. * Eoi follows Shig. * Peter follows Shigeru. * Rei cracks up. "Rock McChisled! Like McDougal's, only with less crap food!" She keeps giggling as she follows. * Chie starts walking down the stairs. "A whole army of Lazars... now *that's* impressive." * Chomei continues with the group. * Lazar continues ignoring Eoi, and heads down the stairs. * Maria ignores the stairs, taking the wall instead. Unless she sees people around that aren't us. [After a good ten minute walk (it takes that long 'cause the room is so big), you come to a set of stairs on the other end, guarded by two stone warriors, about ten times the size of the others.] * Chie looks waaaaaaaaay up at the stone warriors. "...wow. I'm impressed." Very impressive. Betcha they come alive and attack. Neat! * Chomei looks up. "Cool." * Chie whaps Eoi lightly. "*No*, Eoi-sensei. Just... no." That's after we solve the puzzle. ... okay, that pretty impressive. Hey, Laz! Could you carry one of these? Without breaking it? They're not worth as much if they're broken. * Rei peers up, then jumps into the air, flying for a closer look. I really don't think defacing a national treasure is a good idea, Maria. * Chie blinks at Rei. "Hey, since when could you do that, Rei?" Aww! That's no.. hey, since when can you fly? * Chomei looks up at Rei. "That's new." * Lazar shakes his head. "Might be bit more than I can carry. Plus, how sneak it onto plane?" * Maria hops up onto the wall next to Rei. "Huh?" Since I got my new body! I figure it's gotta be good for something. Maybe multiple somethings, like staying alive. ( Oh, anyone wants, make a cultural arts (history) roll ) * Shigeru peers up at Rei. He stares for a moment, then shakes his head. "Smorfy. Right." Aww, man, I'm jealous. You get a cool tail *and* you can fly! 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-2) and gets 3. 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6-1) and gets 7. * Eoi eyes Rei. "Just don't start actin' like Miyu" 2d6-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Peter (2d6-6) and gets 4. Miyu? Who's that? ( Maria? Cultural arts? History? ...*cracks up* ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6) and gets 7. Kar's sister. Weirdo nutcase. ( What's Terra Cotta? Is it tasty? ) Don'tcha mean Mia? She wasn't really nuts. She was nice. Let us stay at her place and play Checkers and stuff. No, no. Mia had another sister. Miyu. [Anyone who made it glanced at the sign long enough to know that the soldiers were created around 200 B.C. to protect the body of the Qin Emporer Shi Huang Di, who wanted to rule even after death. They also read that no two soldiers are alike, even down to their armor.] * Peter is interested! Y'know, Eoi-sensei, I shouldn't be surprised that you know all these people. * Chie alternates between looking at Eoi and staring at the very very impressive and unique and ancient statues, which she found out about by speed-reading the sign. * Rei peeeeeers at the statue she's facing. * Maria alternates between peering at Rei and the statue she's next to. [The statue squint-glares at Rei and the world in general.] * Shigeru stares at his daughter a little longer, then sighs and starts climbing the stairs. * Eoi alternates between peering at Chie and his Naginata. * Peter follows after Shigeru. * Rei beams at the statue before following Shigeru. * Eoi follows his partner in cri.. err, justice. (Justice! Yeah, that's it.) * Chomei looks takes one more glance up the statue, and then starts goin' up the stairs. * Maria shrugs and follows the others. * Lazar does the whole stair-climbing thing. * Chie shrugs and follows along. (Heh.) (Apparently I am in Yu's head. ;p) ( 'Sokay, as long as you don't take anything out of the fridge. ^_^ ) [Down they go, to the second floor! It's a two-floor tomb! There's fewer warriors here, and a sign on the wall. The hallway leads forwards to a large, ornate door.] ( And the second floor is just a hall, albiet a wide one. ) * Chie glances at the sign as she walks past. * Lazar pays no attention to the sign, as he doubts it's in either Hungarian or Hebrew. * Peter walks, because he is Peter. He can't fly.. or can he? * Rei starts making weird noises and listening to the echo. ( He can if Lazar throws him! ) [The sign reads (in Chinese): "This hallway is where all the traps were set. Don't worry, they've been removed! ... maybe."] * Maria ignores the sign, as it is likely of no resale value. * Chomei takes a look at the sign, sees it's all gibberish to him, and keeps walking. Rei's echoing doesn't bother him in the least. * Eoi walks! * Shigeru keeps leading! Somebody's got to do it. * Chie blinks at the sign. "Uh. I'm guessing that people come along this way fairly often?" * Chomei walks along as well. Walking walking walking... Well, it was probably open to the public at some point, so they might've put that sign there to keep the dirty rotten teenagers out and away from vandalizing this room too much. True. Either that, or the caretakers have a warped sense of humor. What sign say? That too! Everyone should have a warped sense of humor. Better than straight ones. Eh? What's it say? Absolutely! Warped senses of humor are the best. Oh, and the sign said that this is where the traps were set, but that they'd been removed... maybe. It says "Keep out, wild Kirbys ahead." .. Aww, you gotta ruin the joke, dotcha Chie. Man, you're no fun anymore. ( ... Ha. So true. ) That's the other side of the sign. * Maria blinks. "Oh. I'll keep an eye out for traps, then. I guess." * Eoi points at Peter's back. "Stuffy got to you, didn't he? With brainwashing or something." Explains why you don't like Naginatas. * Eoi sagenods. No was good joke, anyway. Everyone know only wild Kirbies is in Transylvania. * Peter resists the urge to punch Eoi in the face. Hey, I'm *lots* of fun, Eoi-sensei. * Chie winks. I just like lookin' out for everybody, is all. * Rei giggles. * Chomei chuckles. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-2) and gets 5. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-2) and gets 0, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "I hate these guys. Give 'em one for me." 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-2) and gets 6. And I've got nothin' against naginatas, really. I just like swords better. Why *are* you so obsessed with naginatas? Obsessed? Who's obsessed? * Chie laughs. "Oh, no. No obsession here. No sirree." Besides, you should be greatful. Naginatas saved the world. Sure they did, Eoi-sensei. * Maria shrugs. "Eh. No traps, so don't worry." Hey, ask Shig. * Chie looks at Maria. "Cool." Well, that is good to know. Okay, I've only known you for two days, and I'm already sick of that 'naginata saving the world' thing. No traps? That first... No traps? [You get to the end of the long hallway, eventually.] * Chomei shrugs. Chomei, don't complain. Once you study with him for five years, then you can complain. Or just get used to it, like I did. * Chie winks at him. Well, no mechanical traps or anything. I mean, someone could be waiting for us on the next floor down or something. * Chomei shakes his head. "That's not happening anytime soon." * Eoi pokes Chie. "Your boyfriend needs to lighten up." * Lazar chimes in helpfully. "Duct tape probably work too." * Maria sputters and cracks up. * Chomei yawns while Eoi says that. * Chie blinks. She then opens her mouth and shuts it several times, before finally managing a strangled, "My WHAT?" Oh, no, Eoi-sensei, you got it all wrong. * Shigeru laughs. Oh, come on. It's obvious. * Chie shakes her head. "Really. You do!" * Rei cracks up. "He got you! He got you!" * Chomei scratches his head. "What's up?" * Eoi grins and whispers to Chie. "I like him. He's dim. I bet he'd like to learn about the Naginata." * Chie is... blushing? Nah, can't be. She shakes her head. "No, Eoi-sensei. Just... no." * Eoi grins and walks ahead a bit to give the two lovebirds some privacy. * Shigeru just grins, still walking. * Rei starts chanting as she continues merrily along, "Chie and Chomei, sittin' in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G o/~" Who got who? [Shigeru walks into the door, 'cause it's right in front of him.] * Chomei doesn't miss Rei saying that and does a spittake. "What?" * Maria heads in too. o/~ First come love, then comes marrage, then comes a naginata in a baby carrage. o/~ * Chie GLARES at Eoi and Rei. "Why are you guys turning against me?" ... I think giving birth to naginata hurt very much. * Eoi grins at Shig. "I think you need some better glasses ol' buddy." * Peter simply begins to ponder finding a way to turn off his brain. * Shigeru winces and rubs at his face. "Eoi, I haven't worn glasses in twenty years." * Chomei shakes his head and does a little mental calculation, blushing slightly near the end. Exactly the point. You okay, boss? * Chie eyes Chomei out of the corner of her vision, just to see how he's reacting. * Maria begins looking the door over. Can we just open it, or is it locked? * Chomei notices Chie's reaction too, although he tries to hide it. * Lazar patpats Shigeru. "Leave charging through door to me, no?" * Peter is turned around and watching Cho and Chie with deep amusement. Ah, young love. [Maria reckons this door hasn't been locked for a long time.] * Chie just shakes her head and tries to calm down. Really. The idea that she'd even feel like that. * Shigeru shakes his head. He proceeds to push on one side of the door. * Maria shrugs and tries to open the door! * Chomei looks at the wall. Only reason he's thinking that way is because he was way too stressed yesterday... * Chomei rubs his face and opens his eyes. He's calm, he's collected, he's... well, not cool, but nobody can be perfect. ;p * Chie watches Mr. Ueda and Maria open the door. * Chomei looks at the door as the psychic and Maria open the door. [Between the combined efforts of Shigeru and Maria, or actually just Shigeru, they open the door, revealing a square room almost as large as the first. A red carpet leads to a mini-ziggurat-like alter, upon which is a cage surrounding a coffin. And in the four corners, about ten feet from the walls, are four more terra-cotta soldiers.] [There's something glowing from the back wall, too.] Woooooow. These Chinese emperors were onto something. Multiple somethings. Multiple multiple somethings. * Chomei scratches his head. "So, what does all this have to do with the stone?" Amazing. ... beats being buried in dirt. * Chie blinks. "Incredible..." * Peter looks around curiously. * Chomei opens his eyes a little wider and gets a good look at the room this time. "Wow... Just, wow." * Shigeru nods and starts walking into the room, gesturing for the others to follow. I think it have something to do with weird glowing thing on wall... *walks a bit further in* * Chomei follows Shiggy, looking around as he does so. * Chie follows along, eyes wide. (And secretly grateful for the distraction.) * Rei does so, looking around with wide, violet eyes. "Makoto's missing so much." ...wow. * Chie is, for some reason, rather glad Makoto wasn't there. Gosh, we wonder why. * Maria goes to see what the glow is! [Sure enough, there's a large stone slab at the opposite end of the room, glowing with really strange characters.] ( Anyone who reads Chinese, gimme a mind roll at +2 ) 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6+2) and gets 8. (Nope.) 2d6+2 * Maria frowns. "Prof? Can you read this?" * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6+2) and gets 11. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Shigeru (2d6+2) and gets 9. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Peter (2d6+2) and gets 12. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Eoi (2d6+2) and gets 10. [Well, you can't read 'em. Too bright.] * Chie squints. "Can't make it out." Yeah. Anyway, this is it. I hope you all enjoyed your tour. * Maria pulls out a pair of ordinary sunglasses and holds them out. "Try these? Interesting. * Peter pulls out the Rosetta Stone. "So why did we have to bring this?" [The Rosetta Stone goes shiny!] * Eoi grabs the sunglasses and tries 'em on. "So, do I lo... ooh, shiny." * Rei takes the sunglasses and puts them on. "Aww yeah, now I'm cool. Cool*er*, even. Like a popsic- WAH!" * Chie blinks at the stone, and then steps between it and Rei. Very curious. * Rei scrambles away from the evil stone. Eoi got the shades anyhow. What's with the shiny rock, Petey? * Lazar eyes the stone and the tablet. I'm.. not sure? * Chie glares at the stone. If it were a person, it might be intimidated. Or it might not. Either way, she's not happy. * Maria looks at the stone. "Eh?" * Rei hides behind Shigeru, who keeps one hand on Rei's shoulder and looks at the rock curiously. * Chomei glares at the shiny rock. "I'm very tempted to break it." We all are. Uhm... should I get the stone away from here? That would be inadvisable, and could lead to disaster. Shigeru? Tempted, prof. Doesn't mean we will. Just that we really, really want to. Don't break it. * Shigeru squeezes Rei's shoulder. "That stone's probably the key to figuring out those glyphs." Hm. * Lazar decides to be quiet and listen until someone tells him there's something that needs whacking. * Rei just hides. Not looking at the stone. Not! * Peter holds the stone tighter and looks at the glyphs. "But.. how exactly.." Donno. Toss it at 'em? * Chomei frowns. * Maria looks teh tablet over. Is there a slot for the stone, or something? Try reading it, maybe. [Nope.] * Chie deathglares. Stupid evil stone. * Peter thinks. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Peter (2d6-2) and gets 7. .. Interesting. The words on the Rosetta Stone have.. changed. ...eh? * Chie looks up from her glaring for a minute. "Changed? How?" * Maria looks at the words. * Rei mutters something uncomplimentary about the stupid stone and its stupid words. * Chomei looks at Peter out of the corner of his eye. "Howso?" Magic runes. *mutters* It appears to be.. Chinese, written in Latin. Chinese written in- damn. Chinese written in *Latin*? How'd they even get that? Don't they use different alphabets? * Chie wonders if she ought to start learning Latin now. * Chomei scratches his head. Too confusing. @_@ It appears to be a spell to open a gate. A gate to where? That... demon realm place? * Shigeru looks at Eoi. "Why now?" * Chomei frowns. "Yeah, they were using it at that tower..." No idea. * Maria blinks. And blinks again. * Rei shudders. Shigeru keeps a firm grip on her. It doesn't say where to. Of course it don't. That'd make things easy. I don't know if we should try it... Yeah, well, I'd strongly advise *against* opening it. * Chomei nods. "I'm with Chie here. Who knows what's on the other end?" Demon realm doesn't sound fun. Unless we can go kick batboy's ass there. Is there any way we can get rid of those things? * Chie points at the shiny glyphs. Hit it repeatedly? I'd guess they leave once the spell's cast. This stone was used for something similar before? Silly Maria. Batboy is a comic book character. It was used for something.. Nono. This is someone else, Eoi. * Chie looks at Shigeru nervously. "Um... yeah, Mr. Ueda. It... it eats spirits and uses the energy to open portals." ...and don't get me started on comic books. * Chomei clenches his left hand. * Shigeru looks down at Rei and smooths her hair with his other hand, though it's a rather futile gesture. "Yeah. Let's go." * Eoi looks at Chie. "It does WHAT?" It... takes spirits, Eoi-sensei. Converts them into energy somehow. It hurts. Aw, now that's just not right. * Chie nods. "Yes. It's very wrong." That's a serious understatement. * Shigeru looks up at the others. "We'll do research; see if this portal is worth opening or not, and what the cost will be." * Maria nods emphatically. * Chomei glances over at Shig and slowly nods. "Who gets to destroy it if it isn't.?" Okay. Can we do that with Rei's computer? * Chie nods. "Definitely the best idea, short of actually destroying the thing." Deathglare at stone again. Hers or mine. But she wants to get out of here as soon as possible. * Maria nods. "Okay. I'm just kinda' worried about leaving this here. 'Specially with what the guard said." If can find big rock, can put in front of door so noone else can come in... * Shigeru grimaces. "If the stone's the key, then keeping an eye on it will stop anyone else from using the spell. Or should." * Peter eyes the stone in his hand. "Wonderful. Maria?" * Maria frowns, then nodnods. "Okay." What, you want me to carry it? Aw, that never works. Yes. You've got the best knowledge of hiding items and theft, so I think you're the best choice. * Maria shrugs, palms the stone, and makes it disappear. * Shigeru looks at Eoi and comments, "Just this once." So we can't hide these glyphs or stop other people from getting in? Well, for that some of us would have to stand guard while the others do research. ... like I said, I could maybe block door... ( I don't suppose there were any huge rocks in sight on the way up? ) I- I just wanna leave. Please? We'll go to another room or something. ( Nope ) ...I don't suppose you could move one of those really big warrior guys to block the door, Laz? ( Not to mention that a sattelite link to the internet wouldn't work in a place like this to begin with :P ) * Chie sighs. "Yeah, I know. Okay, let's go." Not really huge ones, but normal size ones, yes. * Chomei nods. "Let's get out of here." * Rei tugs on Shigeru's arm, who lets her lead him out. * Maria sighs. "Well let's just go. And... hope for the best?" * Eoi heads after Rei and Shig. No use having him get kidnapped again. Would keep anyone but us from going in, unless others have golem too... * Chie follows Rei and her dad, after taking one last look at the glyphs. * Peter follows after the elder Udea. If you can, Laz, do it. I think. * Chomei follows the Udeas, not looking back one bit. Works for me. * Lazar watches most of the people ignore him, and mutters something in Hungarian before walking out the door. (I didn't ignore you, Laz. ;_;) [And back they go! If you're going to move any of those warriors, you'll have to do something about the bannisters surrounding them first.] ( Most, not all. =P ) ( I didn't, either. ;_; ) (I didn't. Chomei did. ^^;) * Lazar eyes the banisters. How high are they? How sturdy? [Very high and very sturdy.] I don't think moving priceless artifacts is a good idea. 2d5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (2d5) and gets 2, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "A WINNER IS YOU!" ( ... ) (...) ( ... Yes. ) ( Yes what? ) ( Very golem proof ^^ ) (The doom is the nigh!) ( We're screwed. ;_; ) * Lazar eyes the banister. "... damn. No way I breaking through this to carry statue without lot of time. Anyone see boulder or anvil around?" [Not really golem-proof, but probably rigged with all sorts of alarms to keep people from tampering with the 2000-year old soldiers.] 'Fraid not. * Chie shakes her head. "No. Guess we'll just have to leave it as is." I'd say yes if this was a cartoon, but sadly, we aren't. (Aww, but I wanted to spraypaint my name on them!) Can we get protection placed around the area? ( Since when are alarms a problem? ) The tomb's already closed off, remember? I could ward it, but that would only work against spirits and stuff. Not people. ( Since now. They're Obviously Very Good alarms. ) (Yeah, they crit succeed!) I mean specific protection for this area. ( Aww. ;_; ) ( The stuff is priceless; they don't skimp out on security. ) * Shigeru frowns. "I'll look into it." He goes back to walking out. * Lazar looks around. Any metal bars/rods handy? * Peter walks too. * Chie follows along. [The tomb is actually pretty well kept, considering how old it is. Must be quite a tourist attraction.] * Eoi walks, he talks, he eats, he doesn't sleep on a bed of bones, when he grows up he wants to be a fireman and hold back the floods. (/3 points) ( Seiryu? ) ( No. ) * Chomei shrugs. he keeps a-walkin'. ... if could find some metal bars, I could pound into ground, make cage- type thing in front of door... * Chie looks around. "Sadly, Laz, I don't think there's anything like that around here." [And so they asked the guards to tighten security, then went to do research. Session End]